You’ve already listed the most notable solutions for embedding Chromium (CEF, Chrome Frame, Awesomium). There aren’t any more projects that matter. There is still the Berkelium project (see Berkelium Sharp and Berkelium Managed), but it emebeds an old version of Chromium. CEF is your best bet – it’s fully open source and frequently updated. It’s … Read more
Do a right click->properties on the file in Visual Studio. Set the Copy to Output Directory to Copy always. Then you will be able to reference your files by using a path such as @”.\my_html.html” Copy to Output Directory will put the file in the same folder as your binary dlls when the project is … Read more
The following code works for me, using the live form action URL from the question comments, tested with IE10. Try it as is. If it works for you as well, feel free to use it as a template for your web automation tasks. A couple of points: FEATURE_BROWSER_EMULATION is used to make sure the WebBrowser … Read more
The web browser control supports the NewWindow event to get notified about a popup window. The Winforms wrapper however does not let you do much with it, you can only cancel the popup. The native COM wrapper permits passing back a new instance of the web browser, that instance will then be used to display … Read more
The Web page you linked contains IFrames. An IFrame contains its own HtmlDocument. As of now, you’re parsing just the main Document container. Thus, you need to parse the HtmlElements TAGs of some other Frame. The Web Page Frames list is referenced by the WebBrowser.Document.Window.Frames property, which returns an HtmlWindowCollection. Each HtmlWindow in the collection … Read more
The easiest way: webBrowser.Navigate(“http://localhost/run.php”, null, null, “User-Agent: Here Put The User Agent”);
Here is a C# routine that is capable of putting WPF’s WebBrowser in silent mode. You can’t call it at WebBrowser initialization as it ‘s too early, but instead after navigation occured. Here is a WPF sample app with a wbMain WebBrowser component: public partial class Window1 : Window { public Window1() { InitializeComponent(); wbMain.Navigated … Read more
I’d like to contribute some code to Alexei’s answer. A few points: Strictly speaking, it may not always be possible to determine when the page has finished rendering with 100% probability. Some pages are quite complex and use continuous AJAX updates. But we can get quite close, by polling the page’s current HTML snapshot for … Read more
Checkout CefSharp .Net bindings, a project I started a while back that thankfully got picked up by the community and turned into something wonderful. The project wraps the Chromium Embedded Framework and has been used in a number of major projects including Rdio’s Windows client, Facebook Messenger for Windows and Github for Windows. It features … Read more
WebBrowser control will use whatever version of IE you have installed, but for compatibility reasons it will render pages in IE7 Standards mode by default. If you want to take advantage of new IE9 features, you should add the meta tag <meta http-equiv=”X-UA-Compatible” content=”IE=9″ > inside the <head> tag of your HTML page. This meta … Read more