Web browsing

[John]

Hi

How can run the internet explorer with a specific url from within my vb.net
app?

Thanks

Regards

 

[Cor]

Hi John,

Take a look at the topic "Webbrowser" and when you have questions about it,
do it from friday till sunday, because Charles knows the most of it, but he
watches this newsgroup only in the weekend.

Oh and a hint, use the AXwebbrowser not the webbrowser.
(but when you search for information do it with "webbrowser"

Cor

 

[Justin Weinberg]

If I'm reading your question correctly:

Process.Start("http://msdn.microsoft.com")

 

[John]

Worked. Thanks.

Regards

If I'm reading your question correctly:

Process.Start("http://msdn.microsoft.com")

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[scorpion53061]

No not quite.
You need to add the MS Web Browser control in your toolbar which will import
the shocvw.dll file.
Add it to your project and say:

AxWebBrowser2.Navigate("http://www.yahoo.com")

 

[Charles Law]

Hi John

Have a look at
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;311303

This shows how to host the WebBrowser control in VB.NET, and provides a
sample. The method you are looking for is Navigate (or Navigate2)

Alternatively, if you are talking about launching IE as a process and
passing a url then see Justin's post.

HTH

Charles

 

[Charles Law]

Hi Cor

Actually, I do watch during the week, but I have more time at the weekend to
respond. Also, with all the recent problems with the newsgroups, I got a bit
fed up watching posts appear and then disappear so I stopped watching for a
bit. Good to see it's all back up and running though

Regards

Charles

 

[scorpion53061]

Sorry Charles didnt realize I was so behind on this......

 

[Fergus Cooney]

Hi Charles,

I hear ya. That was a very uncomfortable period.

Regards,
Fergus

 

[Fergus Cooney]

Hi John,

If you mean an embedded IE then Cor's pointing the way.

If you mean an external browser, the code below will do call the User's
default browser.

If you want more control over it, have a look at the members of Process

Regards,
Fergus

<code>
Imports System.Diagnostics

Public Sub CallBrowser (sUrl As String)
Try
Process.Start (sUrl)
Catch e As Exception
MsgBox ("Couldn't start Browser for " _
& sUrl & vbCrLf & vbCrLf & e.Message)
'or
Throw New Exception ("Couldn't start Browser for " & sUrl, e)
End Try
End Sub
</code>