I am trying to SendKeys to a user control which has a web browser inside. I haven't found a decent solution apart from copying the data to a clipboard and pasting it inside the control with a button. Can anyone help on this? I don't currently have any code for this yet.
I've tried:
this.webBrowser1.Focus();
SendKeys.SendWait("example");
However, I don't know how to position the code to target the user controls and web browser in the fashion I want it.
Does anybody know how to do this?
If this is a WinForm application and it has a browser control it must have a property for src or href to hold the url of a page you can make use of that.
But you can also use SendKeys to copy/paste content to/from clipboard:
SendKeys.SendWait("^(c)");
will copy the selected to clipboard and
SendKeys.SendWait("^(v)");
will paste it for you in the current cursor position.
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As the heading suggests, I'm trying to give the user the option to choose an image using the FileUpload control and after hitting the update button, display it in the Image control, existing inside a Panel control.
So far I've gotten here. This is my form.
And this is my code.
I let the highlighted code stay inside PageLoad function just for testing. I know it should be inside the Button's event handler.
Also, can someone explain me why the above fails to display the image even after hardcoding an absolute URL for Image.ImageUrl property. It worked when I referenced it just by giving the file name cake.png and putting the file inside the website folder. But I want to reference absolute URLs.
Any and all help is appreciated. Thanks.
You are creating a web application, which can be available on internet and can be accessible throughout the globe. In your example, which is not working, you are referencing a image file from local file system from your own computer, inside a web application. Your Web application is running under its own process and under its own account/user(IUSR in case of IIS) and your local system is running under a different process. so the two can't talk to each other like that.
[edit] It is a requirement that the webpage spawn and open in IE and allow user manual interaction after the programmatic actions have completed.[/edit]
I've seen a lot of code examples online about opening webpages or filling in webpage textboxes and getting a return value without ever opening them visibly.
I would like to open a webpage in IE, fill in a few textbox buttons
and then click the submit button and view the results visibly.
I am able to do this with a dll called Selenium, but I do not want to use a 3rd party application and it seems that WebBrowser() should be able to do this?
I can post my failed code examples if that would help.
Thanks.
Maybe this qould fit better as a comment, but I don't have enoigh reputation.
Do you know how HTTP-Forms work?
It would probably be easier to send a HTTP-Request to the target of the form you want to fill, including the parameters you would like to fill into the form.
So you don't need any WebBrowser or similar, just a simple HttpWebRequest object, where you specity the target, the method (very likely POST) and the data you'd like to send.
You can use the webbrowser control in Winforms. It is possible to access every DOM object of the website using the control. No need to open the IE externally.
You just need to specify the webbrowser URL as your link.
Then, fill the textboxes with code,
BrowserID.Document.GetElementById("TextboxID").SetAttribute("Value", "NewVaue")
Also, you can click on the button using InvokeMember("click").
There are lots of stuff using WebBrowser. You can learn it here.
I am currently playing a little bit around with the development environment. At the moment I am writing a small app, which adresses a Webbrowser-Control.
Therefore I was looking for an opportunity, to show the URL-bar and maybe manipulating the URL via input of the user. Is this anyway possible, or not implemented for the webbrowser control?
Thanks in advance!
The WebBrowser control itself doesn't have a URL bar. It is simply a control that has the ability to display HTML and run Javascript. The easiest way way to simulate one would be to create a textbox. You can then use its Navigate method to load the webpage:
myWebBrowserControl.Navigate(myTextboxUrl.Text);
Alternatively, you can use the WebBrowserTask, but your app loses all control of the user's activities within this task.
I think it'd be easier to just launch the web browser task directly. Customizing the URL bar would probably require rolling your own.
Here's a related question about opening the browser: Open webbrowser with specific url in WP7
I have an Internet Explorer window open. The title of this window will always be "test123"
how do I save the source of the contents of the window as an HTML file?
Please note that the process should not be to open a URL and read the HTML into a variable. I absolutely HAVE TO do it the way I described since I need to login to a site to be able to view the HTML that I want to save.
**if it makes it easier to do this through my winform and putting a webbrowser control on it, that is fine as well.
You can attach to virtually any Windows app, using managed code and the UI Automation classes. Not a lot of people know about this stuff.
Microsoft shipped a class library and runtime that allows applications to automate other Windows on the system. You can do things like click buttons, read textboxes, activate menus, and so on. Here's a quick intro.
It should be relatively simple to attach to an IE Window, and then programmatically tickle the File...Save As... menu option.
I did this the other day for a Paint.NET app. It took much less time that I thought it would.
But I agree it's probably easier to use a WebBrowser control in a regular app, to programmatically retrieve content. You could also use the System.Net.WebClient class to do it, if you don't need to show the HTML content.
If you embed a WebBrowser control inside of your WinForm you can do this:
webBrowser1.Navigate("http://StackOverflow.com");
string pageHtml = webBrowser1.Document.GetElementsByTagName("html")[0].InnerHtml;
This will return all of the HTML in the page navigated to.
I am building some kind of eBook reader in C# and have the following problem. Rendering HTML in the WebBrowser control just works fine. However, I want to be able to mark text samples with the mouse. This should be available via a button event or (even better) by click-and-drag directly onto the text. How can I get the feedback of the mouse events in the WebControl (and also the selected text)? Are there any examples around?
In a further step I want toe be able to insert notes as well (maybe by HTML injection)
I tried to get it to work with the WebControl, but had not a lot of success. Maybe some of you know a different approach (Gecko, Webkit?).
You already have DOM of the document loaded, and all you need to mark the samples is to modify the the source using DOM. DOM is, roughly speaking is a tree, that represents html source of WebBrowser control.
See IHTMLDocument2 . It's all not so complicated..