How to get hosting website url in silverlight application?

silverlight, silverlight-4.0, silverlight-5.0

Solution

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.

Problem

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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