Question

I’m writing a Windows Phone Mango app. I have a hyperlink that contains email addresses. I want it to show a message box on tap:

Hyperlink href = new Hyperlink();
href.Click += (s, r) =>
{
    MessageBox.Show("href clicked");
};
// add href to RichTextBox

When I click on the hyperlink in the emulator, nothing happens. The click += line is hit in a debugger, but the new EmailComposeTask() line isn’t.

What am I doing wrong? Is Click not the event I want?

Update: I switched EmailComposeTask to MessageBox to verify that this issue isn’t related to the email compose task not running on the emulator. I’ve reproduced this issue on my device.

Answer 1

The following code works:

            GestureService.GetGestureListener(href); // adding this makes it work
            href.Click += (s, r) =>
            {
                 MessageBox.Show("href clicked");
                 new EmailComposeTask() { To = entireLink.Value }.Show();

            };
            href.Inlines.Add(new Run() { Text = entireLink.Value });

GetGestureListener creates a gesture listener if it doesn’t already exist.