Frame.SourcePageType Property
Definition
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Gets or sets a type reference of the current content, or the content that should be navigated to.
public:
property TypeName SourcePageType { TypeName get(); void set(TypeName value); };
TypeName SourcePageType();
void SourcePageType(TypeName value);
public System.Type SourcePageType { get; set; }
var typeName = frame.sourcePageType;
frame.sourcePageType = typeName;
Public Property SourcePageType As Type
Property Value
A type reference for the current content, or the content to navigate to.
Remarks
CurrentSourcePageType and SourcePageType
are normally the same value. However, if the frame calls Navigate and the navigation is still in progress, the CurrentSourcePageType is the value before the navigation and the SourcePageType
is the value being navigated to.
Tip
If you are programming using a Microsoft .NET language (C# or Visual Basic), the TypeName type projects as System.Type. When programming using C#, it is common to use the typeof
operator to get references to the System.Type of a type. In Visual Basic, use GetType
.
SourcePageType
can be set in XAML, using string-to-type conversion that's interpreted using XAML namespace mappings, but that's rarely done. It's a better practice to have code at the app level that uses Frame.Navigate to set the current page. If you do set a value for SourcePageType
in XAML, you typically need to use a prefix such as local:
that's defined in the same XAML construct. You need the prefix to map a XAML namespace that references the code namespace where your page partial class is defined. For more info, see XAML namespaces and namespace mapping.
A more typical scenario for SourcePageType
in code is to only read its value, and not set it. For example you might compare SourcePageType
for the current page in the Frame with items in the navigation stacks (BackStack, ForwardStack) to see if there are existing entries for that same Page.