want to open Link in external browser of WP7

Question

The architecture is like:
On click of a button an HTML page opens which contains a link in it. On clicking the links I want to open it in external (default) browser of W

Answer 1

Normally, you would do so using Target property on <a> tag. But, in WP7 (at least in Emulator), this does not work.

What you could do is intercept using Navigating event something like following:

void WebBrowser1_Navigating(object sender, NavigatingEventArgs e)
{
    if (IsSupposedToOpenInPhoneBrowser(e.Uri))
    {
        e.Cancel = true;
        WebBrowserTask task = new WebBrowserTask();
        task.URL = e.Uri.ToString();
        task.Show();
    }
}

Answer 2

You can use something like that

private void Button_Click_1(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
    WebBrowserTask webBrowserTask = new WebBrowserTask();
    webBrowserTask.Uri = new Uri("http://www.someUrl.com");
    webBrowserTask.Show(); 
}

Answer 3

You can use the WebBrowserTask to launch the browser.

I've found that you need to escape the URL you pass to it though :(