I am using system.windows.forms.webbrowser in my Win forms application with IE as my default browser. Does the IE plugin/ Patch be applicable for my WebBrowser control?
No. If you read the document you will find that system.windows.forms.webbrowser is using embedded Internet Explorer regardless of what your default browser is.
AFAIK there is no built in way to use chrome as embedded browser in win form. You need a third party lib for that.
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I'm making a Windows Form application that makes use of the browser tool. The browser does not connect to the internet and is only used to load local HTML content.
It's loading HTML CSS and JavaScript fine, but It cant seem to recognise jQuery. Is there a simple way for MVS to recognise jQuery as a script? All of the errors are related to it not understanding jQuery methods.
JQuery is supported form internet Explorer: 9+
when you use WebBrowserControl you get browser emulator ie 7,
change your regEdit key according with Use latest version of Internet Explorer in the webbrowser control
I have an Embedded browser in my WPF application. I have used Windows Forms Web browser control by using Windows forms host. I know that Web browser control is a wrapper around Internet Explorer Active x. Which version of IE does Web browser control takes by default. I read some where as it takes IE 6.0 and in some sites as IE 7 compatibility mode. I would also require to upgrade the version of IE in registry. Please clarify.
You don't really have much choice, it's whatever Internet Explorer version is installed.
In IE 8+, by default the content of a WebBrowser control is in IE7 Standards Mode, see the following IEBlog posts:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2011/03/24/ie9-s-document-modes-and-javascript.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2010/10/19/testing-sites-with-browser-mode-vs-doc-mode.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2010/03/02/how-ie8-determines-document-mode.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2009/03/10/more-ie8-extensibility-improvements.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2009/06/17/compatibility-view-and-smart-defaults.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2008/06/10/introducing-ie-emulateie7.aspx
There's probably something normative in MSDN library.
basically is IE7. may use below javacript to check IE version
alert('IE '+document.documentMode+'\n\n'+navigator.userAgent)"
you may set the browser emulation version by registry of FEATURE_BROWSER_EMULATION.
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_BROWSER_EMULATION]
"myprogram.exe"=dword:00002af8
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_BROWSER_EMULATION]
"myprogram.exe"=dword:00002af8
for details, may refer to https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/internet-explorer/ie-developer/general-info/ee330730(v=vs.85)?redirectedfrom=MSDN
or "A Brief Guide to FEATURE_BROWSER_EMULATION" at https://blog.malwarebytes.com/101/2016/01/a-brief-guide-to-feature_browser_emulation/
Chrome now supports offline apps. Is there anyway to embed them in a Winforms application? I know there are ways to embed Chrome instead of IE
The Windows Forms WebBrowser control (Visual Studio) hosts Web pages and provides Web browsing capabilities to your application.
Does the WebBrowser control have inbuild support for rendering content loaded through Javascript, CSS etc.? Or does it render only plain HTML?
It supports javascript, css and etc. WebBrowser component is wrapper of Internet Explorer, and it works like Internet Explorer installed on your computer.
Flash, Silverlight, Video play correctly too.
Also, you may interact with page content from your .NET code or call .NET methods from javascript through windows.external object.
My client WPF application needs to display an HTML page. I understand that the webbrowser control uses the version of IE that is installed on the box.
Is there a control to render HTML that can be totally embedded into my application so that it is not dependent on the version of IE, that the user has installed?
What would happed if a user is using IE6?
Thanks
You could always use WebKit .NET instead. It allows you to embed a WebKit browser in your .NET application without having to have extra software installed on the machine.
There is also geckofx if you would rather go the Mozilla Gecko route.