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Having worked quite intimately with the WebBrowser control in Windows Phone I was a little flawed by how immature and annoying the WebView for Windows 8 metro app is. As noted by Brent Schooley in his post on Metro WebView Source and HTML workarounds you can work around some of the limitations such as the missing SaveToString method. One of the features of the WebBrowser control that I quite often use is the series of events that are raised around navigating to pages within the control. Unlike the WebBrowser, the WebView is missing events such as Navigating, Navigated and NavigationFailed, and has only the LoadCompleted event. I figured that I should be able to detect when the current page is changing, and thus raise a Navigating event. [...]