Browser control on Windows Form?

[SJG0526]

I have an app I'm moving to .NET. It needs to run on a server via ASP.NET/ADO.NET and also needs to have a version distributable via cd to run on anyone's pc.

 

I'd like to keep the base code the same and have as similar GUIs as possible.

 

I don't have a problem writing the web part but do have problems simluating the html on a Windows Form. Is there a web browser control I can put on a WIndows Form?

 

Its very important that the user running the cd version may have any type of browser installed or no browser at all. They may also have a mandate not to install IE. For the current version written in Visual Foxpro, I'm using the Webster Pro web browser control which is a self-contained control. ANyone seen any for .NET?

 

Thanks!

[Guest mutant]

I dont think .NET framework ships with any web browser control, but you should have a COM component called Microsoft Web Browser in the COM components tab when you customize the toolbox.

[SJG0526]

I see that. However doesn't that mean the user would have to have IE installed if I was going to use that component in my development?

[Guest mutant]

Every Windows comes with IE installed. I dont think this will be a problem.

[SJG0526]

Some of our customers have a company-wide policy to standardize on Netscape. I guess they remove IE somehow. Do you know if the necessary components of IE used by the web browser control must always exist in WIndows even if IE isn't on any toolbar or accessible in any way?

[Nerseus]

Yes, you will have to have a working version of IE on a machine that uses the WebBrowser control.

 

-Nerseus

[Volte]

I don't think it's possible to completely remove IE from the computer,

since it's so fully integrated into the OS... the WB control may still

work, though I don't know for sure.