Question

I have a Silverlight application in which I display some phone numbers. I want that numbers to be displayed as links and when the user clicks on the links to be redirected to skype. (The same as on html).

This is the equivalent in html (just to understand what i need):

<a href="callto:[phone]"> [phone]</a>

In silverlight I tried with:

<HyperlinkButton Content="{Binding}" NavigateUri="{Binding StringFormat=callto:\{0\}}" />

but I get System.InvalidOperationException: Failed to navigate to callto:[phone].

Does somebody knows a solution for this?

Answer 1

Can you try using Javascript to invoke that sort of anchor? If you’re able to do this via Javascript, try using the Eval function to invoke the Javascript from Silverlight:

HtmlPage.Window.Eval();