Visual Basic 2015 Unleashed

Accessing the Web with the WebBrowser Control

The WebBrowser control provides specific functionalities for browsing websites. You add it to the user interface by declaring a WebBrowser element as follows:

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<WebBrowser Name="Browser1"/>

Then you can control the WebBrowser behavior from Visual Basic code; the following are methods exposed by the WebBrowser allowing navigation:

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'Open the specified websiteBrowser1.Navigate(New Uri("Http://msdn.com/vstudio"))'Back to the previous pageBrowser1.GoBack()'Forward to the next pageBrowser1.GoForward()'Refresh the pageBrowser1.Refresh()

The WebBrowser also exposes some events; the most important is LoadCompleted, which is raised when the control ...