Is it possible to catch F5 in a Silverlight application

Question

I have a feature request to catch the F5 key and refresh content within a Silverlight application instead of having the browser refresh the entire application. In a simple app, I tried hooking the KeyDown event and it never gets there with F5.

Is this something that is possible to do in Silverlight?

Answer 1

The browser gets all key pressed first and determines whether it will pass them to the hosted content (Silverlight) or not. AFAIK there is no way of stopping a refresh when F5 is pressed, since it will always be handled by the browser.

You may be able to use javascript to detect the keypress and pass it to SL, but I'm pretty sure that won't stop the browser from refreshing.