Question

I have a WPF navigator control where I’m trying to do something to the effect of the following so I can clean a URL up before going to the clipboard:

if (webBrowserWorkflows.Source = "http://testinglink.com")
{
     // do stuff
}

Unfortunately when I try to do this Visual Studio tells me: “Cannot convert source type string to System.URI”.

With this in mind I’ve tried:

if (webBrowserWorkflows.Source.ToString = "http://testinglink.com")
{
     // do stuff
}

However I’ve had no success. As I’m sure you can tell I’m quite new to C# – this is a bit of a testing ground for me so any documention you can provide with an answer to help me to understand that answer would be very much appreciated!

Answer 1

You need to create a new URI object, you can pass your URL into the constructor, this should work:

using System;

...

URI myUri = new URI("http://testinglink.com"); 

webBrowserWorkFlows.Source = myUri;
//OR    
webBrowserWorkFlows.Navigate(myUri);
...

if (webBrowserWorkflows.Source == myUri)
{
    // do stuff
}

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.uri.aspx

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.controls.webbrowser.aspx