Visual Studio 2008 Web Browser Control
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Hi I am not sure whether this is the right forum to ask this question, but I am using the web browser control in Visual Studio 2008 to create my own browser. Firstly, dragging the control onto a form, and run it I can access all of my web pages, so no problem there, but I have a few questions that I need to find answers to: 1) As the web browser control is an instance of IE, then if Java Script is disabled in Internet Explorer, would it be disabled in my browser? If not, is there a way of ensuring programmatically disable it in my explorer as this is what I want? Likewise, I would like to ensure that Active X is enabled in my browser? 2) My second question is that my web application will not have an address because I want to hide this away for security reasons. Rather re-create my web browser to change the URL if the web pages move to a different server, is there away I can use an INI or some text file which will hold this information if such a thing were to happen - can someone help me on this? 3) I have used IsWebBrowserContextMenuEnabled = False to switch off right clicks in the browser - is there away to switch off key press commands, such as ctrl P, print screen in a bespoke web browser? I hope some one can help! Thanks
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Hi I am not sure whether this is the right forum to ask this question, but I am using the web browser control in Visual Studio 2008 to create my own browser. Firstly, dragging the control onto a form, and run it I can access all of my web pages, so no problem there, but I have a few questions that I need to find answers to: 1) As the web browser control is an instance of IE, then if Java Script is disabled in Internet Explorer, would it be disabled in my browser? If not, is there a way of ensuring programmatically disable it in my explorer as this is what I want? Likewise, I would like to ensure that Active X is enabled in my browser? 2) My second question is that my web application will not have an address because I want to hide this away for security reasons. Rather re-create my web browser to change the URL if the web pages move to a different server, is there away I can use an INI or some text file which will hold this information if such a thing were to happen - can someone help me on this? 3) I have used IsWebBrowserContextMenuEnabled = False to switch off right clicks in the browser - is there away to switch off key press commands, such as ctrl P, print screen in a bespoke web browser? I hope some one can help! Thanks
1 - yes, I believe the IE settings on the host machine will apply 2 - You cannot have a web application without an address. How is this related to your 'browser' ? Yes, if you want your 'browser' to open your site, you can simply hide the URL, and browse to it, and you can store it in a config file. 3 - No, I don't believe so, although I know you can handle keypress events, perhaps you can mark them as handled if control is down ?
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Hi I am not sure whether this is the right forum to ask this question, but I am using the web browser control in Visual Studio 2008 to create my own browser. Firstly, dragging the control onto a form, and run it I can access all of my web pages, so no problem there, but I have a few questions that I need to find answers to: 1) As the web browser control is an instance of IE, then if Java Script is disabled in Internet Explorer, would it be disabled in my browser? If not, is there a way of ensuring programmatically disable it in my explorer as this is what I want? Likewise, I would like to ensure that Active X is enabled in my browser? 2) My second question is that my web application will not have an address because I want to hide this away for security reasons. Rather re-create my web browser to change the URL if the web pages move to a different server, is there away I can use an INI or some text file which will hold this information if such a thing were to happen - can someone help me on this? 3) I have used IsWebBrowserContextMenuEnabled = False to switch off right clicks in the browser - is there away to switch off key press commands, such as ctrl P, print screen in a bespoke web browser? I hope some one can help! Thanks
- This is a security issue that is not supported by the web browser control. Imagine the security risk if someone could change settings for each of the different security zones. To disable scripting, I strip the script from the page. (An exercise left to the reader.) 2) My.Settings is perfect for what you want to do. Bring up the properties for the web browser control, select (ApplicationSettings) then (PropertyBinding), scroll down to Url, expand the drop-down list, then select "new..." The rest is up to you. 3) Use
WebBrowserShortcutsEnabledproperty. Check the documentation for this property, specifically the Remarks and Example sections. Following is my standard initialization for a "concealed" web browser control. Private Sub InitializeBrowserHelper() _browseHelper = New System.Windows.Forms.WebBrowser _browseHelper.AllowWebBrowserDrop = False _browseHelper.IsWebBrowserContextMenuEnabled = False _browseHelper.WebBrowserShortcutsEnabled = False _browseHelper.ScriptErrorsSuppressed = True AddHandler _browseHelper.DocumentCompleted, AddressOf _browseHelper_DocumentCompleted End Sub
- This is a security issue that is not supported by the web browser control. Imagine the security risk if someone could change settings for each of the different security zones. To disable scripting, I strip the script from the page. (An exercise left to the reader.) 2) My.Settings is perfect for what you want to do. Bring up the properties for the web browser control, select (ApplicationSettings) then (PropertyBinding), scroll down to Url, expand the drop-down list, then select "new..." The rest is up to you. 3) Use