We need to be able to open a web browser from within our application (.NetStandard 2.0). The browser should be opened as an external application, the requirement does not call for the browser to be embedded in our application, thus using the WebBroswer control is not an option. We need to be able to specify the following options:
Height of the browser
Width of the browser
Top position
Left position
Addressbar enabled or disabled
Menubar enabled or disabled
Statusbar enabled or disabled
Toolbar enabled or disabled
We initially thought that using the Process class would work, but it doesn't seem that these options can be specified with the Process class. Any articles or recommendations as to how we can achieve this would be greatly appreciated!
You could consider creating a Windows Form application or WPF application, then use the WebBrowser control to display the web page.
More detail information about using WebBrowser control, please check the following links:
WebBrowser Control Overview
How to: Add Web Browser Capabilities to a Windows Forms Application
How to show address bar in WebBrowser control
WebBrowser Control In WPF
Try to use the InternetExplorer object to control an instance of Windows Internet Explorer.
First, right click the application Reference and select Add Reference option, then in the COM tab, checked the Microsoft Internet Controls and click OK to add reference.
Then, refer to the following code to use InternetExplorer object:
SHDocVw.InternetExplorer ie = new SHDocVw.InternetExplorer();
ie.Navigate("http://www.bing.com");
ie.ToolBar = 0; //hide or display the toolbar.
ie.AddressBar = false; //hide or display the AddressBar.
ie.Left = 200;
ie.Height = 800;
ie.Width = 500;
ie.StatusBar = false; // hide or display the statusBar.
ie.Visible = true; //display IE browser.
More detail information about the properties, please check the IWebBrowser2 interface.
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I'm trying to open a IP specified webpage using IE (Why IE? Because not every Windows have Chrome or Firefox installed) and present it in a simple Winforms window.
The up-mentioned webpage is a BI (Business Intelligence) webpage that will update itself dynamically, and I want the user to sit and look at it while the page is updated with a new statistics.
Flow of events:
User will enter the specific IP address and click "Get the Web-page".
New Winform window will pop-up with the specific webpage inside.
Also, it will be great if there an option to hide IE navigation panel, because I don't want to give the option of browsing in this window.
I tried to do this using CefSharp, but I didn't get to anywhere. Every example that I saw was written in asp.
Here is was I did so far, and this is not working:
namespace BingoDesktopWindow
{
public partial class BingoWin : Form
{
public BingoWin()
{
InitializeComponent();
CefSettings settings = new CefSettings();
CefSharp.Cef.Initialize(settings);
ChromiumWebBrowser browser = new ChromiumWebBrowser("http://12.345.67.89/bingo/Default.html");
this.browserPanel.Container.Add(browser);
}
}
Thank you!
}
Why do not you use Winforms WebBrowser control. WinForms WebBrowserControl. You can manipulate it more than IE. Web browser control is itself derived from IE so, it has all its functionalities.
Is there a way in .NET to have a Process open the default web browser with no address bar and no tabs, WITHOUT using kiosk mode? I can't use the WebBrowser object because it uses IE7, and the pages that need to be opened use JavaScript. I can't use kiosk mode because the client needs the window to appear in a specific area of the screen. I also need to maintain access to the browser because I have to know when the page is closed.
Try this:
dynamic ie = Activator.CreateInstance(Type.GetTypeFromProgID("InternetExplorer.Application"));
ie.AddressBar = false;
ie.MenuBar = false;
ie.ToolBar = false;
ie.Visible = true;
ie.Navigate("www.google.com");
This uses automation to achieve what you want.
You can also set the position, add event handlers, etc.
The documentation for this interface is here.
If you want to acheive browser automation then you should use Selenium webdriver
I've got a webbrowser in a c# form and when the user click on a link the page opens in the ie10 browser.
All I want is to intercept this event and open the new page in another webbrowser (extendendwebbrowser really).
The fact is that i don't want to know what the user click in the page, but i'd like to intercept all the requests "open new page" from my webbrowser and redirect them to my extendedwebbrowserform and create a new tab with that link.
Thanks for help.
There are at least 2 ways to do that:
Extend the WebBrowser control to intercept the NewWindow2 event, then cancel original request and use that url to open it in a new window. Similar code can be found here or in code project Extended .NET 2.0 WebBrowser Control.
Implement INewWindowManager, and use EvaluateNewWindow to do the same.
I am using the web browser control in C# project to load html pages.
I can navigate back / forward or refresh the page only after right clicking the web page.
How do I add these navigation controls to the web browser itself, so that user can navigate without right clicking.
You can add buttons on your form and wire up their click events to the appropriate actions you need.
//if wb is your WebBrowser instance
wb.GoBack();
wb.Refresh();
wb.GoForward();
I have an application that connects to www.Jango.com and using a web browser control. However when using the .NET browser control I constantly receive a script error of “Unable to get value of the property 'msIsSideMode': object is null or undefined”, and therefore the rest of the site does not load.
This can be reproduced by creating a simple windows forms application, adding a webbrowser control and navigating to jango.com
As far as I can tell, the web browser control renders a website based on the version of IE installed on your machine. On my machine I have IE9 installed. The method msIsSiteMode appears to be an IE method that tells weather the current page was launched as a pinned site. Since jango.com is very JavaScript based, this null value causes the website to stop functioning correctly. However navigating to jango.com in Internet Explorer works just fine and no errors are produced.
Is anyone aware of a way to work around this, such as having my application set the value? Have the web browser control render as a different version. Any suggestions at all, I am open to anything, except changing the version of IE on my machine as this is not an option.
Set the ScriptErrorsSuppressed property to True on the WebBrowser control.
EDIT: One more alternative
Try this on the Form that hosts the web user control:
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
using System.Security.Permissions;
[ComVisibleAttribute(true)]
[PermissionSet(SecurityAction.Demand, Name = "FullTrust")]
public partial class Form1 : Form
{
public Form1()
{
InitializeComponent();
webBrowser1.ObjectForScripting = this;
}
...
}
Read here for more detailed information.
I see similar problem in WebBrower Control with IE9 installed on my machine. In my case, I have two windows forms with WebBrowser Controls. One of those is used to load the pop up from the other.I get the script error on pop up one.its only with IE9