How to change the startup page on a WP7 application

December 28, 2013 by Anuraj

.Net .Net 3.0 / 3.5 Silverlight Windows Phone

Sometimes you may need to change the startup page of Windows Phone application. By default it will be pointing to MainPage.xaml. You can modify the WMAppManifest.xml to change the default page. In the WMAppManifest.xml you will find the following.(You can get the WMAppManifest.xml by expanding the properties node in the Project Explorer window.)

<Tasks>
  <DefaultTask  Name ="_default" NavigationPage="MainPage.xaml"/>
</Tasks>

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