accessing browser from windows form

2 Jun 2006 3:42 PM

Joe Van Meer

Hi All,

How would I go about accessing all the currently running browsers on users
system via a windows form app, to for example, to refresh a page? Is this
possible? I have used the diagnostics library to get all instances of the
iexplore processes but am lost as to how to get each browser so I can
manipuldate some of the properties?

Cheers & thanks! Joe :)

2 Jun 2006 10:16 PM

Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]

"Joe Van Meer" <jvanm***@eastlink.ca> schrieb:
> How would I go about accessing all the currently running browsers on users
> system via a windows form app, to for example, to refresh a page? Is this
> possible? I have used the diagnostics library to get all instances of the
> iexplore processes but am lost as to how to get each browser so I can
> manipuldate some of the properties?

You may want to check out 'ShellWindows' which maybe can used to archieve
what you want:

<URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/code/net/#IEReuseWindow>

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M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
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3 Jun 2006 10:13 AM

Joe Van Meer

Thank you Sir! I will check that out!

Cheers, Joe :)

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"Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]" <hirf-spam-me-here@gmx.at> wrote in message
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> "Joe Van Meer" <jvanm***@eastlink.ca> schrieb:
> > How would I go about accessing all the currently running browsers on
users
> > system via a windows form app, to for example, to refresh a page? Is
this
> > possible? I have used the diagnostics library to get all instances of
the
> > iexplore processes but am lost as to how to get each browser so I can
> > manipuldate some of the properties?
>
> You may want to check out 'ShellWindows' which maybe can used to archieve
> what you want:
>
> <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/code/net/#IEReuseWindow>
>
> --
> M S Herfried K. Wagner
> M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
> V B <URL:http://classicvb.org/petition/>
>