Request user location

Question

Hello

I was using Microsoft Geolocation class, but is not very accuarate (using desktop)

So what I want to do, is to open a WebView2 inside my app, and request the location and capture the latitude and longitude. If the user press deny, I want to show an error in a content dialog.

is there any way to do this?

I am using winUI

Answer 1

I am using winUI

You don't need a WebView2 control.

For example, this test in WinUI 3 works for me :

                HttpWebRequest httpWebRequest = ((HttpWebRequest)(WebRequest.Create("https://ipapi.co/json")));
                httpWebRequest.Method = "GET";
                httpWebRequest.Credentials = CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials;
                httpWebRequest.Headers.Add(HttpRequestHeader.AcceptEncoding, "txt");
                httpWebRequest.UserAgent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv: 52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0 SeaMonkey/2.49.4";
                WebResponse webResponse = httpWebRequest.GetResponse();

                Stream stream = webResponse.GetResponseStream();
                var streamReader = new StreamReader(stream);
                string sResp = streamReader.ReadToEnd();

                string sBeginLatitude = "\"latitude\": ";
                string sEndLatitude = ",";
                string sLatitude = sResp.Substring(sResp.IndexOf(sBeginLatitude) + sBeginLatitude.Length);
                sLatitude = sLatitude.Substring(0, sLatitude.IndexOf(sEndLatitude));

                string sBeginLongitude = "\"longitude\": ";
                string sEndLongitude = ",";
                string sLongitude = sResp.Substring(sResp.IndexOf(sBeginLongitude) + sBeginLongitude.Length);
                sLongitude = sLongitude.Substring(0, sLongitude.IndexOf(sEndLongitude));

                Debug.WriteLine("Latitude : " + sLatitude);
                Debug.WriteLine("Longitude : " + sLongitude);

                webResponse.Close();