24.6. The WebBrowser Control
As you've seen in this chapter, WPF blurs the boundaries between traditional desktop applications and the Web. Using pages, you can create WPF applications with web-style navigation. Using XBAPs, you can run WPF inside a browser window, like a web page. And using the Frame control, you can perform the reverse trick and put an HTML web page into a WPF window.
However, when you use the Frame to show HTML content, you give up all control over that content. You have no way to inspect it or to follow along as the user navigates to a new page by clicking a link. You certainly have no way to call JavaScript methods in an HTML web page or let them call your WPF code. This is where the WebBrowser control comes into the picture. ...
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