Want to Eary Bind Instead of Late Bind Object an IE Object

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Dick Sutton

Hi all,

I just made the mistake of posting this question in the
Microsoft.Public.VB.General.Discussion group. I was told that VB 2005
Express is NOT VB. Oh, well, must have touched a nerve. Anyway, here's the
situation.

I am using VB 2005 Express to build a program and I have found that the
easiest way to generate a 'text page' (for viewing and/or printing) for my
app is to create an HTML page using the IE document object. I know, it's
crude, but serves my purpose well (I use this technique extensively in VB
Script). Here's my problem: I can get it to work by using 'late' binding
as such:

Dim oIE As Object
' instantiate Internet Explorer
oIE = CreateObject("InternetExplorer.Application")
oIE.left = 225
oIE.top = 75
oIE.width = 680 ' width of dialog...
oIE.height = 600
oIE.menubar = True
oIE.toolbar = True
oIE.statusbar = False
oIE.addressbar = False
oIE.Resizable = True
oIE.navigate("about:blank")

etc...

However, as you can see, I'm employing late binding. As such,VB 2005
Express requires me to turn off "Strict". I want to use 'early' binding,
but I can't find a reference for it. I guess I don't know what I'm looking
for.

Does anyone have the solution for me?

Thanks in advance...

Dick
 
Throw a webbrowser control on a form and you are ready

see on the left in the toolbox


drag and drop

regards

Michel Posseth
 
Dick,

In addition to Michel because you have everything almost ready probably is
this easier (not tested)Dim oIE As New Webbrowser
' instantiate Internet Explorer
Click to expand...
'oIE = CreateObject("InternetExplorer.Application")

And than you have to use probably some other names of properties.
oIE.left = 225
oIE.top = 75
oIE.width = 680 ' width of dialog...
oIE.height = 600
oIE.menubar = True
oIE.toolbar = True
oIE.statusbar = False
oIE.addressbar = False
oIE.Resizable = True
oIE.navigate("about:blank")

etc...
Click to expand...
As general hint try to avoid forever the raw "object" in your program.

If you want to use really Internet Explorer than you have to set a reference
to SHDOCVW (Microsoft Internet Controls) and than tell to use that as

dim oIE as new ShDocVW.Interenetexplorer

I hope this helps,

Cor
 
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