Using the launcher to start Internet Explorer from Code in Windows Phone 7.

Currently in the Mix 2010 pre-release of the Windows Phone 7 SDK the  external launchers are still very much under development. But you can already use them to launch the built-in Internet Explorer from your application.

All you need to do is to reference the external library “Microsoft.Phone.Tasks” and use the WebBrowserTask class as follows:

[…] 

using Microsoft.Phone.Tasks; 

 

namespace WindowsPhoneLaunchExternal

{

    public partial class MainPage : PhoneApplicationPage

    {

        […] 

        private void hyperlinkbuttonExternal_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)

        {

            WebBrowserTask task = new WebBrowserTask();

            task.URL = textboxUrl.Text;

            task.Show(); 

        }

    }

}

The super simple sample code shows the difference between the XAML WebBrowser control and the WebBrowserTask.

Have fun!