#hardware button

How to disable Hardware Back button in Windows Phone App #wpdev http://wtuts.me/backkey

Sometimes there may be a situation when you wish to prompt the user before exiting the page or frame of the application. So you need to control the back button function at that time.

Here is the code to disable the back button and perform your own function on pressing the back button.

  Silverlight (Windows phone 8/8.1)

In the constructor of the page you need to add the following code as shown in…

Handling the Back Button in a Windows Phone 8.1 app #wpdev http://wtuts.me/BackButton

If you are developing an app using the Universal app template then you may have noticed that the app terminates on pressing the hardware back button. Lets navigate from Page1.xaml to Page2.xaml by using a button with the click event code:

this.Frame.Navigate(typeof(Page2));

When we are on Page2, and the hardware back button is used, the app closes without an exception or anything. It just returns…