get URL !!!!

[students552 university]

Hi all how can I write programe in C# to get thw URL from the address bar when any one use the internet explorer . Please help me. Thanks.

[Anonymous]

You might want to explain why you want this first...people on here aren't too interested in helping with spyware applications...just in case that's what you had in mind.

[Heath Stewart]

If you're hosting the WebBrowser control in your Windows Forms application, get the LocationURL property. If you want to get the URL from a running instance of Internet Explorer, you can use the InternetExplorerClass from shdocvw.dll by creating an RCW (Runtime Callable Wrapper, or "interop assembly") like so:

tlbimp /out:Interop.SHDocVw.dll %windir%\system32\shdocvw.dll

You can also create this in VS.NET by adding a reference to your project, click on the COM tab, and find "Microsoft Internet Controls". You can then do something like this:

InternetExplorerClass ie = new InternetExplorerClass();
return ie.LocationURL;

There are rules regarding this property and what can retrieve the value, so you should read about it in the MSDN Library[^]. This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Software Design Engineer Developer Division Sustained Engineering Microsoft [My Articles] [My Blog]

[students552 university]

I write in my programe : InternetExplorerClass ie = new InternetExplorerClass(); textBox1.Text = ie.LocationURL; but when i excute it , it gives empty string not url ,what is the wrong???

[Heath Stewart]

I told you - you need to read the documentation for the property: it is protected for the very same reasons that the other reply mentioned - to prevent malware from gather information about your browsing habits out of process. There is more information about what is and isn't possible at http://msdn.microsoft.com/library[^]. This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Software Design Engineer Developer Division Sustained Engineering Microsoft [My Articles] [My Blog]