> I've satisfactorily got an axwebbrowser control on a form within a
> panel, suitably positioned and sized, and now I want to display a
> webpage on it.  This is not normally a problem when I have the
> control as a uniquely named object, since I would just use the
> axweb.Navigate or Navigate2 method to send it to the right page. 
> However, it's part of a controls collection, accessible only via its
> place in the collection.
>
>
> [Form3, the form with the web browser]
>
>     Public Sub LoadWebBrowser()
>         If WebBrowserExists = False Then
>             Dim ax As New AxSHDocVw.AxWebBrowser
>             ax.Dock = DockStyle.Fill
>             Me.Controls.Add(ax)
>             WebBrowserExists = True
>             WebBrowserIndex = Me.Controls.Count - 1
>         End If
>     End Sub
>
>
> As you can see, Form3.Controls(WebBrowserIndex) is the webbrowser
> control.  Now how do I set the page on the control?  Using
> ax.Navigate within this procedure gives me the following error
>
> 'An unhandled exception of type 'InvalidActiveXStateException'
> occurred in systems.windows.forms.dll'
>
> and is not ideal in any case, since I'm not sure if the object ax
> will continue to exist outside this procedure.  But trying to access
> the method via
>
> Me.Controls(WebBrowserIndex).Navigate
>
> doesn't work at all, as Navigate is not a member of
> System.Windows.Forms.Control, despite being a member of _that
> particular_ control.
>
> Incidentally, if anyone can get Form3 to locate and size
> appropriately with an axwebbrowser control inside at designtime then
> this will save me a lot of headaches.  But I reckon I'll probably
> want to access methods of controls in collections sooner or later, so
> I'll still be grateful for help in this.
>
>