how to make webbrowser in .net use the latest internet explorer - c#

Hi I am using Windows Presentation Foundation with .NET in MS Visual Studio 2010 Professional and I am embedding a web page into my application using a WebBrowser object, however it seems that the WebBrowser is using some old version of the Internet Explorer and I really need it to be using the latest Internet Explorer installed on the user's computer.
How to make .NET use the latest Explorer?

You can set the rendering mode by setting a registry key value for your app.
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