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Sueffel

Okay, so, in VB6 we had that lovely InternetControl that we could use to
make a webbrowserr with. I had usued it to display web pages on my forms.
Well, I'm looking for the same thing under .NET, but, it seems I have to use
the ActiveX InternetControl I used inder VB6. Well, ActiveX is now on my
top 10 "Must Die Horribly" list. I want to avoid it as much as humainly
possible. So, short of having to build an HTML parser and make my own
InternetControl, is there a solution that doesn't cost an arm and a leg? As
an alternative, if someone wants to get with me and assist in building such
a control, lemme know LOL I love building stuff...

Thanks,
Sueffel
 
Nope, still using the ActiveX control.
While having everything in managed code would be wonderful (if you're
working with .NET anyway), there's still a lot of code out there that's
unmanaged. But be aware that quite a bit of the framework actually interacts
with COM or some other unmanaged code under the covers. It's not entirely
evil.

-Rob Teixeira [MVP]
 
Hi Sueffel,

Maybe can you remember the big Netscape - Microsoft battle when Microsoft
decided to implement the main part of IE in the windows environment?

I have always to think about that when I am using the AXwebbrowser, is it
not just using the internal part of Windows.

Just my thought,

Cor
 
Hi Ken,

Is this sure, because I have not so long ago searched on microsoft for
whidbey and webbrowser, I found only a very little sentence where a speaker
had said that it would come.

And now this article is also not from Microsoft.

Cor
 
Sueffel said:
Okay, so, in VB6 we had that lovely InternetControl that we could use to
make a webbrowserr with. I had usued it to display web pages on my forms.
Well, I'm looking for the same thing under .NET, but, it seems I have to use
the ActiveX InternetControl I used inder VB6. Well, ActiveX is now on my
top 10 "Must Die Horribly" list. I want to avoid it as much as humainly
possible. So, short of having to build an HTML parser and make my own
InternetControl, is there a solution that doesn't cost an arm and a leg? As
an alternative, if someone wants to get with me and assist in building such
a control, lemme know LOL I love building stuff...

Thanks,
Sueffel
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Rob, very happy with it doing things "Under the covers", as long as the
framework is installed, I could care less, and either way, I still don't
have to deal with DLL Hell. And yes, I really hate having to depend on the
windows internet controls actually working, with all the IIE6 vanurabilities
and such. I'm going to try and see if I can't make one on my own, that's a
buttload of work though, and I have never figured out how to display images
and formatted text in a nice window such as a RichTextBox. Never got that
one figured out at all LMAO.
You know, I don't have a hope and prayer on doing that, I never was able
to finish a simple telnet client *sigh*, I need to stick to DB and business
apps. Maybe I'll just have to wait for Whidbey and spend another $1,500 on
it :(

Thanks again everyone,
Sueffel
 
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