Setting start page of Windows Phone dynamically through code

I will start with saying , this post is small and sweet J I was working and come across a requirement to set start page of Windows Phone Application through code or dynamically.

Essentially this one line of code will set the start page of the application.

Say, you have a page called Page1.xaml and you want to set it as start page of application. Then you will have to set start page in App.Xaml.cs as below.

    private void Application_Launching(object sender, LaunchingEventArgs e)
        {

                Uri nUri = new Uri("/Page1.xaml", UriKind.Relative);
                ((App)Application.Current).RootFrame.Navigate(nUri);

        }

Last thing you need to do is remove entry of default task from WMAppManifest.xml file. If you notice entry for default navigation page is empty.

  <Tasks>
      <DefaultTask  Name ="_default" NavigationPage=""/>
    </Tasks>
    <Tokens>
      <PrimaryToken TokenID="liveTilesToken" TaskName="_default">
        <TemplateType5>
          <BackgroundImageURI IsRelative="true" IsResource="false">Background.png</BackgroundImageURI>
          <Count>0</Count>
          <Title>liveTiles</Title>
        </TemplateType5>
      </PrimaryToken>
    </Tokens>

This was all about setting the start page in Windows Phone application. I hope this quick post was useful. Thanks for reading