How to Make a Webbrowser In "Visual Basic"

First of all you need to download Microsoft Visual Basic. Any form of Visual Basic is good, but remember, some of them cost money. I use the free version Visual Basic "Express Edition" but like I said, any form will do good. http://www.microsoft.com/Express/VB/ <<If you dont already have VB, heres a link to the free version<<

Step 1 Starting The Project

When you've finished downloading the program you must start the program,
Open VB and and open a new "Windows Forms Application" file

Comments

[TheExplodingTacoz]

i'm new to scripting and all that stuff, but this really helped me get a jump start on basic, nice ible!

[jamesjph]

Why does everyone use Basic? Whats wrong with C#?

[nutsandbolts_64]

Because Basic is basic and C sharp is too sharp for others to handle haha. Besides, you can crunch out applications faster on VB than programming with C or any of its relatives, because you still have to compile the stuff. I do admit that accessing codes in your head is much faster than having to look for a button on VB, that's why I'm trying to learn C++. While all of this was going, I'm using a web browser I crunched out 10 minutes ago hehe. Nothing's wrong with C#, it's just that if you're a newbie it's very... intimidating. It's more of a psychological battle with yourself.

[screenguy]

thanks really good instructable

[movieman97]

will a regular button work instead? i am new to this

[Void Schism]

Yes, just drag buttons from the toolbox.
You can set the text on the buttons in the properties.

[movieman97]

Thanks. Also, I was wondering, what is the code for a progress bar?

[must invent]

The code for the progress bar is:
Private Sub WebBrowser1_Navigating(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.WebBrowserNavigatingEventArgs) Handles WebBrowser1.Navigating
        ProgressBar1.Visible = True

        With ProgressBar1
            .Minimum = 0
            .Maximum = 50
            .Step = 5
        End With
        For index As Integer = 0 To 50 Step 5
            ProgressBar1.Value = index
            System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(35)
        Next
    End Sub

[movieman97]

Thanks!

[Void Schism]

A progress bar basically has a number of progress points, and you set a value depending on how much work has been done. Commonly this is done in a report progress method hooked to a background worker (yay for jargon!).
If you select the progress bar and hit F1 to bring up help there is an example of this.
I am unsure what event the browser control raises to report its progress, but essentially you want to hook a method to this event that updates the value of the progress bar.
By default the progress bar has 100 points, so the value works as a percent done measure.
Sorry I can't give code examples, I'm mainly a C# developer and try to avoid basic.

[Void Schism]

Another simple way would be to drop a splitter control onto the form, then drop the browser onto the bottom half of the splitter. open the properties panel and set the dock style property to fill (there should be a set of boxes, click the big one in the center).

This will mean the browser fills the window even if resized, and allows you to resize the top panel which you can use for a menu.

There are more "proper" ways, but lets keep it simple.

[Robby Bob]

Yah, sure.

[ac1D]

It's cool but,
it is not really explained, you just describe how to make it and,
this is, in fact, internet explorer.

Also, it's a repost.
http://www.instructables.com/id/Make_a_web_browser_in_visual_basic/
http://www.instructables.com/id/Creating_a_Program_in_Visual_Basic_Web_Browser/

[wee_man]

Thanks was easy to follow. Made my Web Browser. One suggestion maybe abit more customations that people can do to it and an explaination of how to works