WebBrowser Control

What is Web Browser Control?

The C# Web Browser controls enable us to host documents in our Windows Forms pages and other Web browsers. In our C# projects we can add browser control fromvisual studio tool box and show web pages like regular commercial web browsers. We can use the browser control to provide our application's integrated HTML-based user support or web browsing skills.

In other words, The WebBrowser control offers a managed wrapper for the ActiveX control of WebBrowser. We can show webpages in our Windows Form customer applications with the controlled wrapper. The web browser control can be used to duplicate the Internet Explorer web browsing feature in our application, and the Internet Explorer functionality can be disabled by default and used as a simple HTML document viewer. We can also use the control to incorporate elements of the DHTML user interface into our form, which can hide the fact they are hosted in our WebBrowser controller.

This approach allows you to seamlessly combine web controls in a single application with the Windows Forms controls.

 

Open URL To Web Browser Control

webBrowser1.Navigate(new Uri(url));

 

Navigate method of the WebBrowser Control

The control of the Web browser has several navigational properties, methods and events.

Go to Home

webBrowser1.GoHome();

 

Next

webBrowser1.GoForward();

 

Go Back

webBrowser1.GoBack();

 

Refresh

webBrowser1.Refresh();

 

In order to display the SaveAs diaog, Print Dialog, PrintPreview Dialog and the Properties dialogue, the Method ShowSaveAsDialog, ShowPrintDialog, ShowPrintPreviewDialog, and ShowProperties are used.

Save

webBrowser1.ShowSaveAsDialog();

Print Preview

webBrowser1.ShowPrintPreviewDialog();

Print

webBrowser1.ShowPrintDialog();

Properties

webBrowser1.ShowPropertiesDialog();

 

The following C# program shows a browser window web page and can also retrieve the same web page source code by clicking on another button.

 

private void btnViewSource_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            String source = ("ViewSource.txt");
            StreamWriter writer = File.CreateText(source);
            writer.Write(webBrowser1.DocumentText);
            writer.Close();
            Process.Start("notepad.exe", source);
        }

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