WPF: Creating a Web Browser

Introduction

This article will help you to create a web browser in WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation).

Prerequisites

1. Visual Studio 2013 with update 4 (or) Visual Studio 2015

Follow the following steps now:

Step – 01: Open Visual Studio 2015 and Create a New Project. 

Step – 02: Select WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation), name your project and select the location where it has to be saved.

Step – 03: Goto MainWindow.xaml and paste the following code for the web browser:

<Window x:Class="WPFWebControl.MainWindow"
 
        xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
 
        xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
 
        Title="My Web Browser" WindowState="Normal" Loaded="Window_Loaded" WindowStyle="ThreeDBorderWindow" mc:Ignorable="d" xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008" xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006" Height="529" Width="731">
 
    <Grid>
 
        <Button Content="<<" Height="23" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="10,5,0,0" Name="MyBack" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="25" ToolTip="Backword" Click="MyBack_Click" />
 
        <WebBrowser Height="445" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="10,33,0,0" Name="MyWebBrowser" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="687" LoadCompleted="MyWebBrowser_LoadCompleted" />
 
        <TextBox Height="23" Margin="103,5,12,0" Name="MyTextBox" VerticalAlignment="Top" />
 
        <Button Content="|>" Height="23" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="41,5,0,0" Name="MyGo" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="25" ToolTip="Go" Click="MyGo_Click" />
 
        <Button Content=">>" Height="23" HorizontalAlignment="Right" Margin="0,5,612,0" Name="MyForward" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="25" ToolTip="Forward" Click="MyForward_Click" />
 
    </Grid>
 
</Window>

Step – 04: Now copy the following code in MainWindow.xaml.cs:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows;
using System.Windows.Controls;
using System.Windows.Data;
using System.Windows.Documents;
using System.Windows.Input;
using System.Windows.Media;
using System.Windows.Media.Imaging;
using System.Windows.Navigation;
using System.Windows.Shapes;
  
namespace WPFWebControl
{
    public partial class MainWindow : Window
    {
        public MainWindow()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
        }
  
        private void Window_Loaded(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
        {
            try
            {
             
                MyWebBrowser.Source = new Uri("http://www.microsoft.com");
  
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                MessageBox.Show(ex.Message);
            }
        }
  
        private void MyBack_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
        {
            try
            {
                MyWebBrowser.GoBack();
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                MessageBox.Show(ex.Message);
            }
        }
  
        private void MyForward_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
        {
            try
            {
                MyWebBrowser.GoForward();
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                MessageBox.Show(ex.Message);
            }
        }
  
        private void MyGo_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
        {
            try
            {
                MyWebBrowser.Source = new Uri("http://" + MyTextBox.Text);
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                MessageBox.Show(ex.Message);
            }
        }
        private void MyWebBrowser_LoadCompleted(object sender, NavigationEventArgs e)
        {
            MessageBox.Show("Completed.");
        }
    }
}

Step – 05: Now run the project by clicking on start at the top of Visual Studio 2015.