using IE as a UI

[Derrick]

Can anyone direct me to a resource to learn how to use IE as my UI for a
windows application like applications such as Quicken, MS money, etc. do.

Thanks in advance.

Derrick

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

Can anyone direct me to a resource to learn how to use IE as my UI for a
windows application like applications such as Quicken, MS money, etc. do.

"Why?"

 

[Derrick]

I am working on an application that needs to diplay information that is
difficult to display satisfactorily in typical windows forms - displaying it
in a web page-like display would work, but I don't want to have to generate
html pages with the application.

Derrick

 

[Ying-Shen Yu[MSFT]]

Hi Derrick,

It's not easy to customize the WebBrowser like Money. You need use a lot of
advanced COM interface of the WebBrowser. You need more effort to implment
it in .NET, since the it's heavy use of COM Interop, and I'm not sure if
you could do all customization to the WebBrowser in .Net.


For an introduction on how to customize the WebBrowser, you may read this
tutorial:
<WebBrowser Customization >
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/workshop/browser/hosting/
wbcustomization.asp

searching the interface names will give you more result on WebBrowser
customization.

For a simple tutorial on hosting WebBrowser in Winform application
you may read this article on CodeProject
<Using MSHTML Advanced Hosting Interfaces>
http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/advhost.asp#xx314140xx

Hope it helps!

Best regards,

Ying-Shen Yu [MSFT]
Microsoft Online Partner Support
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[Ed Kaim [MSFT]]

Whidbey introduces some useful stuff, such as FlowLayout, where you can have
controls and content autoarrange themselves similar to the way content
rearranges to fit in a browser. Unfortunately, that doesn't help you much
today :-(

 

[Derrick]

Thank you for your help

I will try to figure out some other way of displaying the informationI need
to show.

Derrick

Whidbey introduces some useful stuff, such as FlowLayout, where you can have
controls and content autoarrange themselves similar to the way content
rearranges to fit in a browser. Unfortunately, that doesn't help you much
today :-(

Hi Derrick,

It's not easy to customize the WebBrowser like Money. You need use a lot of
advanced COM interface of the WebBrowser. You need more effort to implment
it in .NET, since the it's heavy use of COM Interop, and I'm not sure if
you could do all customization to the WebBrowser in .Net.


For an introduction on how to customize the WebBrowser, you may read this
tutorial:
<WebBrowser Customization >

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/workshop/browser/hosting/

wbcustomization.asp

searching the interface names will give you more result on WebBrowser
customization.

For a simple tutorial on hosting WebBrowser in Winform application
you may read this article on CodeProject
<Using MSHTML Advanced Hosting Interfaces>
http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/advhost.asp#xx314140xx

Hope it helps!

Best regards,

Ying-Shen Yu [MSFT]
Microsoft Online Partner Support
Get Secure! - www.microsoft.com/security

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties and confers no rights.
This mail should not be replied directly, "online" should be removed before
sending.

 

[Mark]

Take a look at SyncFusion: http://www.syncfusion.com/Products/tools.aspx
They have a "Layout Manager Package" as part of their Essential Tools
product that might be of help to you.

Mark