title: phone webbrowser.navigate not navigating to url
body: <p>I'm in the process of doing my first tutorial for windows phone. I've downloaded the sdk and updates. I'm following the tutorial below.</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vbteam/archive/2011/02/23/how-to-create-a-mini-browser-application-for-windows-phone-7.aspx" rel="nofollow">tutorial</a></p>
  
  <p>when i compile and click debug, the emulator fires up and the UI is displayed correctly. The problem is when i click on the "Go" button, nothing happens. The app should display the url that is in the textbox above.</p>
  
  <p>Has anyone any ideas why, sorry if it's obvious but i've started learning this today from an android background.</p>
  
  <pre><code>Partial Public Class MainPage
      Inherits PhoneApplicationPage
  
      ' Constructor
      Public Sub New()
          InitializeComponent()
      End Sub
  
      Private Sub url_TextChanged(sender As System.Object, e As System.Windows.Controls.TextChangedEventArgs) Handles url.TextChanged
  
      End Sub
  
      Private Sub Go_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As RoutedEventArgs)
  
          Dim site As String
  
          site = URL.Text
  
          MiniBrowser.Navigate(New Uri(site, UriKind.Absolute))
  
      End Sub
  End Class
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>.</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;phone:PhoneApplicationPage 
      x:Class="MiniBrowser.MainPage"
      xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
      xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
      xmlns:phone="clr-namespace:Microsoft.Phone.Controls;assembly=Microsoft.Phone"
      xmlns:shell="clr-namespace:Microsoft.Phone.Shell;assembly=Microsoft.Phone"
      xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008"
      xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006"
      mc:Ignorable="d" d:DesignWidth="480" d:DesignHeight="768"
      FontFamily="{StaticResource PhoneFontFamilyNormal}"
      FontSize="{StaticResource PhoneFontSizeNormal}"
      Foreground="{StaticResource PhoneForegroundBrush}"
      SupportedOrientations="PortraitOrLandscape" Orientation="Portrait"
      shell:SystemTray.IsVisible="True"&gt;
  
      &lt;!--LayoutRoot is the root grid where all page content is placed--&gt;
      &lt;Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot" Background="Transparent"&gt;
          &lt;Grid.RowDefinitions&gt;
              &lt;RowDefinition Height="Auto"/&gt;
              &lt;RowDefinition Height="*"/&gt;
          &lt;/Grid.RowDefinitions&gt;
  
          &lt;!--TitlePanel contains the name of the application and page title--&gt;
          &lt;StackPanel x:Name="TitlePanel" Grid.Row="0" Margin="12,17,0,28"&gt;
              &lt;TextBlock x:Name="ApplicationTitle" Text="MY FIRST APPLICATION" Style="{StaticResource PhoneTextNormalStyle}"/&gt;
              &lt;TextBlock x:Name="PageTitle" Text="Mini Browser" Margin="9,-7,0,0" Style="{StaticResource PhoneTextTitle1Style}"/&gt;
          &lt;/StackPanel&gt;
  
          &lt;!--ContentPanel - place additional content here--&gt;
          &lt;Grid x:Name="ContentPanel" Grid.Row="1" Margin="12,0,12,0"&gt;
              &lt;TextBox x:Name="URL" Margin="0,0,120,0" Text="http://www.xbox.com" VerticalAlignment="Top"/&gt;
              &lt;Button x:Name="Go" Content="Go" VerticalAlignment="Top" HorizontalAlignment="Right"/&gt;
              &lt;phone:WebBrowser x:Name="MiniBrowser" Margin="0,84,0,0"/&gt;
          &lt;/Grid&gt;
      &lt;/Grid&gt;
  
      &lt;!--Sample code showing usage of ApplicationBar--&gt;
      &lt;!--&lt;phone:PhoneApplicationPage.ApplicationBar&gt;
          &lt;shell:ApplicationBar IsVisible="True" IsMenuEnabled="True"&gt;
              &lt;shell:ApplicationBarIconButton IconUri="/Images/appbar_button1.png" Text="Button 1"/&gt;
              &lt;shell:ApplicationBarIconButton IconUri="/Images/appbar_button2.png" Text="Button 2"/&gt;
              &lt;shell:ApplicationBar.MenuItems&gt;
                  &lt;shell:ApplicationBarMenuItem Text="MenuItem 1"/&gt;
                  &lt;shell:ApplicationBarMenuItem Text="MenuItem 2"/&gt;
              &lt;/shell:ApplicationBar.MenuItems&gt;
          &lt;/shell:ApplicationBar&gt;
      &lt;/phone:PhoneApplicationPage.ApplicationBar&gt;--&gt;
  
  &lt;/phone:PhoneApplicationPage&gt;
  </code></pre>