I am working on a C# application which uses an embedded WebBrowser control to display some HTML content. I want to test whether installing IE9 http://windows.microsoft.com/ie9 will effect my application.
The MSDN blog http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2008/03/18/webbrowser-control-rendering-modes-in-ie8.aspx states that the WebBrowser control defaults to IE7 rendering. However, I want to know what binary is actually being used to do the IE7 rendering.
I think the WebBrowser control could be packaged with:
the version of IE included with Windows (e.g. IE8 with Windows 7)
the newest version of IE installed in Windows (e.g. IE9)
the .NET runtime, my application uses .NET 2.0
Visual Studio, my application is built using VS2008
Which of these is correct?
The .net winforms webbrowser is just a wrapper for MSIE's own browser control (in shdocvw.dll). If you have IE8 installed, it uses IE8. If you have IE9 installed it uses IE9. For some silly reason they decided to have it fall back to IE7 rendering mode.
You can override that with a meta tag in the page header, or with a registry key. See MSIEs WebBrowser control hosted in winforms app runs in compatibility mode
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I used the WebBrowser control to display PDFs in a Visual Studio C# Application.
This solution was working for a long time. But suddenly it does not display PDF documents anymore.
But using the WebBrowser, the screen stays gray for .pdf files.
When setting the project explititly to x86 target platform, it works again. With Any or x64 it doesn't show the PDFs, but x86 is no solution for me, because my application needs x64.
Here's a question extremely similar to mine, but there was no definitive answer to the problem.
WPF WebBrowser control does not show PDFs anymore (.NET5 Acrobat Reader ActiveX)
Problem has been resolved in Windows Update.
"Internet Explorer 11 and applications that use the WebBrowser control may fail to open PDFs 64-bit versions of IE11 and applications that use the 64-bit version of the WebBrowser control may show PDFs as gray.
Resolved KB5004760"
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I was able to integrate Flash driver into older version of GeckoFX (33.0) that is using xulrunner. The flash driver (NPSWF32.dll) is simply put into xulrunner\plugins directory and everything works fine.
However, I am not able to get the project run with recent versions of GeckoFX (eg. 45.x) that is not based on xulrunner. Is there any idea where should I put NPSWF32.dll?
A simple java applet is to be loaded from another device on my desktop application web browser control on windows 10 (64 bit). This java applet is working fine with IE 11 (with compatibility settings on) on the windows 10 machine but when this is loaded in web browser control (WPF app on .net framework 4.0 and with "Any CPU" build settings) there is a cross on the upper left corner and java applet doesn't load. Also if the WPF app build setting is "x86" the WPF app crashes while trying to load applet.
The same applet is working without any problem with IE 8.0 on windows xp (32 bit) within webbrowser control of WPF application.
Also we won't be able to modify the java applet within the device as device is already in field.
I have developed one windows application with webkit.net control by using its dll.
In which when we open any webpage of local folder it doesn't show fonts.
(i.e. webkit .net has font issues, different fonts are not loaded in its browser.)
What should I do?
Is there a property we have to set over there for this control?
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.
This may be of some help...
WebBrowser Control rendering modes