WebBrowser

Because the .NET Framework 3.5 SP 1 WebBrowser control is available for WPF developers, the control provides specific functionalities for browsing websites. You add it to the user interface by simply declaring a WebBrowser element as follows:

<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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The WebBrowser also exposes some events, and the most important is LoadCompleted that is raised when the control completes loading a web page. This can be handled to get useful information on the visited website, as in the following ...

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