Internet Explorer is such a buggy software and it is even worse when you are using it as a browser for your Visual Studio / .NET program. It is not a big surprise why third party software was used widely naming Awesomium as one of the leading third party provider. It is mainly used in providing HTML based UI for inline game stores.
Time to write new codes again, this portion of my website was stopped when I lost my VPS servers a few months back. Coderinthebox won’t be called as such without code examples. This tiny code will show a trick to load a dynamic web browser, navigate it and extract the page’s html code purely on the backend.
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// Create a dynamic Webbrowser to get the HTML Source code from a given URL public String ReadViaBrowser(String url) { // Instantiate the browser Browser wb = new Browser(); // Tell the browser to visit the url wb.Navigate(url); // Wait for the browser to load the complete website while (wb.ReadyState != WebBrowserReadyState.Complete) { Application.DoEvents(); } // DocumentText holds the html code return wb.DocumentText; } |
