How to I get access NavigationService in a WIndows Phone app without going through a PhoneApplicationPage?

Question

How to I get access NavigationService in a Windows Phone app without going through a PhoneApplicationPage? My goal is to pass it to the application's primary view-model on startup, a technique that worked quite well for me in WPF and Silverlight.

Answer 1

You can get it from the app's PhoneApplicationFrame. It will be accessible from anywhere in the app since every Windows Phone app has a Frame.

((PhoneApplicationFrame)Application.Current.RootVisual).Navigate(...);