WP7/Silverlight Hyperlink Image

Question

I am new to both Silverlight and WP7. I have been attempting to hotlink an image by using a HyperlinkButton and setting its content to an Image. However, this just makes my

Answer 1

It looks like you're trying to make an image launch a webpage when tapped.

THe only way to launch a web page is to use the WebBrowserTask. If I were you I'd wrap an Image in a GestureListener (from the toolkit) and launch the task on a tap event.

Like this:

xaml:

cs:

    private void GestureListener_Tap(object sender, GestureEventArgs e)
    {
        var wbt = new WebBrowserTask();
        wbt.URL = "http://www.stackoverflow.com/";
        wbt.Show();
    }