Winforms browser control vista

Close ;. Navigate Application. I knew writing to a temp file would be a possible solution, but I was hoping there was a programatic way of dealing with the domain issue. I'll give the temp file approach another shot. I was just hoping to avoid that added complexity. Code Snippet webBrowser1. As you can see, you can redirect to google this time which means that the "about:blank" is in internet domain. However, the files in your computer are in local file domain.

Microsoft has released a lot of security patches to avoid reading local files through web page. If you can crack that, you crack the IE security model. Of course it would be a great job to do that. In my point of view, there maybe some other workarounds, but they may cause even more coding, so I think a temp file could be one of your best choices. Yes, I understand the importance of IE's security model However, I'm not entirely sure how to ensure that your application can install the ActiveX control on-demand.

Wim ten Brink Wim ten Brink OK I tried disabling the protected mode option re booted but still no joy. Cheers for the help though — Kaya. I have eventually sorted this issue out.

One web page caused exceptions. The application was hosting a web page running an activeX control. All working fine now. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name. Email Required, but never shown. This puts Chromium over the top. Okay, so what are the drawbacks of using Chromium? Chromium is by no means lightweight. It depends on a number of DLLs that you will need to bundle with your application.

But for me, this is a small price to pay for including such great abilities. These articles will get you up and running. Again, referring to Dirkster99 and Alex Maitland above articles, we need to specify the platform we are targeting. I will choose x At this point, our project includes all the functionality needed to use Chromium.

Note: The function calls Cef. Initialize ; and Cef. Shutdown ; only need to be called once in the application. This will add the Chromium browser control to the main form. This is what our resulting form looks like:. This will bring up the familiar chrome developer tools. You get access to everything and allows you to inspect the DOM and elements, debugging JavaScript code, viewing CSS styles, run commands via the console, etc. I have added a menu option to the left system menu see Fig 3 that allows you to view the chrome dev tools at runtime.

To insert the menu option, I have created a utility class that injects the menu option. To enable this menu, you make a call to the following static class in the forms Load method:. It is not described here as it detours from the main premise of the article.

To find out what version of chrome you are using within your application, simply navigate to this URL:. To do this, you need to call LoadHtml. This function expects:. You can create a directory structure that suits you. You can either create these directories directly In Visual Studio's Solution Explorer, however I find it easier to create your directory structure directly in Windows Explorer.

After that, the added directories will show up in Solution Explorer. WebBrowser Control Overview Explains what this control is and its key features and properties. WebBrowser Security Explains security issues related to the control. WebBrowser class Describes this class and has links to all its members. WebBrowserEncryptionLevel Describes this enumeration and all its values.