How to get hosting website url in silverlight application?

KentZhou picture KentZhou · Jul 6, 2012 · Viewed 8.6k times · Source

Silverlight App is hosting on a web site. How to get the hosting url in silverlight app code? For example if the hosting site is http://mysite/startingpage.aspx, then how to get "http://mysite" in SL app code?

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Kevin Aenmey picture Kevin Aenmey · Jul 6, 2012

This will give you the location of the page hosting the .xap file:

var pageUri = System.Windows.Browser.HtmlPage.Document.DocumentUri.ToString();

This will give you the location of your .xap file:

var applicationUri = System.Windows.Application.Current.Host.Source.AbsoluteUri;

You can then take either of these strings and parse out the parts you don't need.