WebBrowser

Many interfaces are implemented with websites. In a WPF program, we provide access to websites (and other data sources) with the WebBrowser control.

Please first drag a WebBrowser control from the Toolbox to your WPF window. You will want to expand the WebBrowser to fit the window.

Loaded

Please next add a Loaded attribute to your Window element. In the Window_Loaded method, we access the WebBrowser (with the name "MainBrowser") and call Navigate on it.

<Window x:Class="WpfApplication28.MainWindow"
        xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
        xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
        Title="MainWindow" Height="350" Width="525"
        Loaded="Window_Loaded">
    <Grid>
        <WebBrowser HorizontalAlignment="Left"
                    Height="299"
                    Margin="10,10,0,0"
                    VerticalAlignment="Top"
                    Width="497"
                    Name="MainBrowser"/>
    </Grid>
</Window>
using System.Windows;

namespace WpfApplication28
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Interaction logic for MainWindow.xaml
    /// </summary>
    public partial class MainWindow : Window
    {
        public MainWindow()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
        }

        private void Window_Loaded(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
        {
            // ... Load this site.
            this.MainBrowser.Navigate("http://en.wikipedia.org/");
        }
    }
}

Example 2

The WebBrowser can access the network to download a web page. But it can also directly open a file on your local computer. This is done also with the Navigate method.

<h1>Hi there!</h2>
<p>
file.html
</p>
using System.Windows;

namespace WpfApplication28
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Interaction logic for MainWindow.xaml
    /// </summary>
    public partial class MainWindow : Window
    {
        public MainWindow()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
        }

        private void Window_Loaded(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
        {
            // ... Load a local HTML page.
            this.MainBrowser.Navigate("file:///C:/folder/file.html");
        }
    }
}

GoBack, GoForward

The WebBrowser control allows navigation with the GoBack and GoForward methods. They will throw exceptions if no pages are available for navigation.

A WebBrowser control can be used to load a web page. After loading, navigation can occur with GoBack and GoForward. We also used WebBrowser to load an HTML file from the local disk.