LaunchUriAsync does not navigate to the correct uri

Question

I need to navigate to an internet page within my metro application. My url is (sample) 'http://www.foo.com/#/foo'. The issue is that LaunchUriAsync cut the url to 'http://www.foo.com'.

try
{
    Uri uri = new Uri(item.UriCode); 
    await Launcher.LaunchUriAsync(uri);
}
catch (Exception exception)
{
    //TODO
}

Where am I wrong ? Regards.

Update :

I precise that uri = http://www.foo.com/#/foo . So the issue comes from LaunchUriAsync .

Answer 1

I tried with the same code just hardcoding the uri that you mentioned Please check the code below :

    /// <summary>
    /// Invoked when this page is about to be displayed in a Frame.
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="e">Event data that describes how this page was reached.  The Parameter
    /// property is typically used to configure the page.</param>
    protected async override void OnNavigatedTo(NavigationEventArgs e)
    {
        try
        {
            Uri uri = new Uri("http://www.foo.com/#/foo");
            await Launcher.LaunchUriAsync(uri);
        }
        catch (Exception exception)
        {
            //TODO
        }
    }

The output is shown below

i think there's some other problem. May be with the item.UriCode line please check .

Answer 2

I think it is difficult to diagnose what is actually wrong from your example.

It appears you are trying to navigate to an anchor within a web page, but doing it with incorrect syntax / pointing to a non-existent anchor. However, your example linked page doesn't seem to contain a navigable anchor.

Assuming that this is actually what you are trying to achieve, try the following example, and you will see that navigation works as expected

Launcher.LaunchUriAsync(new Uri("http://www.hypergurl.com/anchors.html#bottom"));

If this isn't what you are trying to achieve, I would suggest that the presence of the # character in the URI is being interpretted as an anchor reference by IE and that's why you aren't getting the result you require.