Embed a Google Business View Virtual Tour - vb.net

I would like to embed this to my windows form.
Private Sub InitializeComponent()
Try
Me.VirtualView = New WebBrowser
Me.AutoScaleDimensions = New System.Drawing.SizeF(6.0!, 13.0!)
Me.AutoScaleMode = System.Windows.Forms.AutoScaleMode.Font
Me.ClientSize = New System.Drawing.Size(347, 261)
Me.Name = "frmVirtual"
Me.Text = "frmVirtual"
Me.VirtualView.ScriptErrorsSuppressed = True
Me.VirtualView.Name = "frmVirtual"
Me.VirtualView.DocumentText = "<html><body><iframe width='600' height='450' style='border: 0' src='https://www.google.com/maps/embed?pb=!1m0!3m2!1sen!2sau!4v1481252003737!6m8!1m7!1sF%3A-pwYGx-oWTIk%2FWC6LeJuIxdI%2FAAAAAAAABIg%2FphppDvMZr54JiWnLbsbUgDcTGUfGXLMRACLIB!2m2!1d-33.76525136331761!2d150.9088391438127!3f310!4f0!5f0.7820865974627469' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen></iframe></body></html>"
Catch ex As Exception
MessageBox.Show(ex.Message.ToString(), "Unable to Retrieve")
End Try
End Sub
But nothing displays on this code. Please help. Thank you.

You should not be navigating the address in the InitializeComponent method, use the Load() method of the class to navigate. for this particular issue you need to set the DocumentText property of the WebBrowser control.
On another note you are creating a new instance of the WebBrowser control, but are not adding it anywhere I could see. If you don't add it you will never see this control. IMO just drag and drop a new one where you need it.
Me.VirtualView.ScriptErrorsSuppressed = True
Me.VirtualView.DocumentText = "<html><body><iframe width='600' height='450' style='border: 0' src='https://www.google.com/maps/embed?pb=!1m0!3m2!1sen!2sau!4v1481252003737!6m8!1m7!1sF%3A-pwYGx-oWTIk%2FWC6LeJuIxdI%2FAAAAAAAABIg%2FphppDvMZr54JiWnLbsbUgDcTGUfGXLMRACLIB!2m2!1d-33.76525136331761!2d150.9088391438127!3f310!4f0!5f0.7820865974627469' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen></iframe></body></html>"
What I did here was you need to wrap the iframe inside a html and body tags.
Note: I added the ScriptErrorsSuppressed to true because there are script error's when loading that. Also look into the new way to embed these maps, they require an API key to use in your calls here

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Is there a way to retrieve text from a webpage to a TextBox in VB.NET?

Let say I have a TextBox1 and a SaveButton. A website "www.example.com/code1.text" with just a content:
303981
How to retrieve this 303981 to a TextBox?
Do we need a WebBrowser1?
Please help me I'm self learning and beginner also.
Look at the System.Net.WebClient type.
Using wc As New WebClient()
TextBox1.Text = wc.DownloadString("www.example.com/code1.text")
End Using
You need to place a webbrowser control on your form. I would use CefSharp for this
(see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6d-AgfFzr70)
then you can do something like:
settings = New CefSettings
CefSharp.Cef.Initialize(settings)
browser = New ChromiumWebBrowser("www.google.com")
Which loads google.com, just change it to the page you want to load.
Now check your website and see if you can get that textbox value by javascript from the console (F12). Check the source if you can access it with it's ID or that you need to use it's class.
for example:
document.getElementsByClassName('textboxclass')[0].value;
if you manage to get the right value back in your browser console, you can go ahead in your program and do somethinh like:
Dim task As Task(Of JavascriptResponse) = browser.EvaluateScriptAsync(code)
where code contains your javascript.
you may do something like:
task.ContinueWith(
Sub(t)
Try
If t.IsFaulted = False And t.Result IsNot Nothing Then
Dim response = t.Result 'Error: Result is not a member of Task'
If response.Success And response.Result IsNot Nothing Then
taskResult = response.Result
Else
taskResult = "bad result"
End If
End If
Catch ex As Exception
'Dbg("!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Exception: " & ex.ToString)
taskResult = ex.ToString
End Try
End Sub)
to get the result in a string.

FlowLayoutPanel not showing more than one Control after it's cleared

My program automates a process on a website using selenium, HTTP requests, and an HTML parser known as HtmlAgilityPack.
There are parts of this process that require user input that can not be automatically filled out by hard-coded values. Allowing the user control over the website to fill in these inputs would be a mistake. It would be difficult to know when they are done inputting it and they would likely touch something they shouldn't which would cause errors when control of the website is handed back over to the program.
Instead, I download the page source of the website using selenium and parse the inputs out of the HTML with HtmlAgilityPack. Then controls matching those inputs are dynamically generated and added to a FlowLayoutPanel. The FlowLayoutPanel works correctly the first time. It displays all added controls. When the user is done they click on a button and the process continues.
Sometimes the process encounters errors that cause it to loop back to where the user needs to enter input again. The exact code that worked before is then run in the same subroutine again. It all runs without error and as expected. I have manually checked at runtime that the controls are added to the FlowLayoutPanel, that they have a size bigger than 0, 0, and that they are a visible color. Yet only one control ever shows up in the FlowLayoutPanel no matter how many should be visible.
The FlowLayoutPanel has it's AutoScroll property set to true and it has adequate space to add more controls. As I said this works fine the first time around just not the second. I've been stuck on this for a while and would appreciate some help. The code is going to be posted below for you to look at.
The code I am going to post has several FlowLayoutPanels. One that is on the Form permanently that was created in the designer and the others are generated dynamically to group up the controls.
The issue is with the permanent one. It shows one control as I said. This control is the first dynamically generated flow layout panel and all of it's children. It doesn't display any of the other FlowLayoutPanel controls that are added to it. Just whichever one is added first.
For those of you wondering about the line FLPOutOfStock.ImprovedClear() in the code bellow, The .Improved clear is an extension method I wrote. When Clearing the FlowLayoutPanel with the normal method, .Clear(), the controls get removed but they don't get disposed of. My method disposes of all the controls in the panel and then calls the Clear() method on the panel.
I realize that the Clear() method isn't necessary after they've been disposed of it's just a backup since nothing ever seems to work. I wanted to make sure the panel was fully reset.
Here is the code:
Private Sub UIOutOfStockState_Load()
Try
cmdOutOfStockDeleteAll.Enabled = False
cmdOutOfStockContinue.Enabled = False
FLPOutOfStock.ImprovedClear() 'The flowlayoutpanel that does not display all controls
With New WebDriverWait(ChromeDriver, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(20)).Until(Function(driver) CBool((CType(driver, IJavaScriptExecutor)).ExecuteScript("return jQuery.active == 0")))
End With
LBLOutOfStockErrors.Text = "Notice. The following items are out of stock. Please see below for product-specific availability dates. If you have any questions, please contact Customer Service at (800) 843-2020. All direct to patient orders will ship complete. The entire order will ship when out-of-stock product becomes available."
Dim OutOfStockDoc As New HtmlAgilityPack.HtmlDocument
OutOfStockDoc.LoadHtml(ChromeDriver.PageSource)
Dim OutOfStockProductNodes As HtmlAgilityPack.HtmlNodeCollection = OutOfStockDoc.DocumentNode.SelectNodes("//div[contains(#id,'id_detail_item_')]")
FLPOutOfStock.SuspendLayout()
If OutOfStockProductNodes IsNot Nothing Then
For Each OutOfStockProductNode As HtmlAgilityPack.HtmlNode In OutOfStockProductNodes
Dim FLPOutOfStockProduct As New FlowLayoutPanel
FLPOutOfStockProduct.SuspendLayout()
FLPOutOfStockProduct.FlowDirection = FlowDirection.LeftToRight
FLPOutOfStockProduct.AutoSize = False
FLPOutOfStockProduct.Size = New Size(420, 160)
FLPOutOfStock.Controls.Add(FLPOutOfStockProduct)
Dim WBProductText As New WebBrowser
WBProductText.Size = New Size(400, 120)
WBProductText.AllowNavigation = False
WBProductText.AllowWebBrowserDrop = False
WBProductText.IsWebBrowserContextMenuEnabled = False
WBProductText.ScriptErrorsSuppressed = True
WBProductText.ScrollBarsEnabled = True
WBProductText.Margin = New Padding(0, 0, 0, 0)
WBProductText.Padding = New Padding(0, 0, 0, 0)
WBProductText.Navigate("about:blank")
Dim ProductTextHtmlDoc As New HtmlAgilityPack.HtmlDocument
ProductTextHtmlDoc.LoadHtml(OutOfStockProductNode.OuterHtml)
ProductTextHtmlDoc.DocumentNode.SelectSingleNode("/descendant::a[#id='patient-outOfStock-delete-item']").Remove()
WBProductText.DocumentText = ProductTextHtmlDoc.DocumentNode.OuterHtml
FLPOutOfStockProduct.Controls.Add(WBProductText)
FLPOutOfStockProduct.SetFlowBreak(WBProductText, True)
Dim SpaceReducer0 As New Panel
SpaceReducer0.Size = New Size(0, 0)
FLPOutOfStockProduct.Controls.Add(SpaceReducer0)
Dim cmdProductDeleteButton As New Button
cmdProductDeleteButton.Text = "Delete"
cmdProductDeleteButton.BackColor = Color.White
cmdProductDeleteButton.ForeColor = Color.Black
cmdProductDeleteButton.Margin = New Padding(0, 0, 0, 0)
cmdProductDeleteButton.Padding = New Padding(0, 0, 0, 0)
cmdProductDeleteButton.Size = New Size(400, 20)
Dim OnClickAttributeValueWithQuoteEscaping As String = OutOfStockProductNode.SelectSingleNode("/descendant::a[#id='patient-outOfStock-delete-item']").GetAttributeValue("onclick", "")
cmdProductDeleteButton.Tag = "//a[#id='patient-outOfStock-delete-item' and (#onclick=""" & OnClickAttributeValueWithQuoteEscaping & """)]"
AddHandler cmdProductDeleteButton.Click, AddressOf cmdProductDeleteButton_Click
FLPOutOfStockProduct.Controls.Add(cmdProductDeleteButton)
FLPOutOfStockProduct.SetFlowBreak(cmdProductDeleteButton, True)
Dim SpaceReducer1 As New Panel
SpaceReducer1.Size = New Size(0, 0)
FLPOutOfStockProduct.Controls.Add(SpaceReducer1)
FLPOutOfStockProduct.ResumeLayout()
Next
FLPOutOfStock.ResumeLayout()
FLPOutOfStock.Refresh()
End If
cmdOutOfStockDeleteAll.Enabled = True
cmdOutOfStockContinue.Enabled = True
Catch Ex As Exception
cmdOutOfStockDeleteAll.Enabled = True
cmdOutOfStockContinue.Enabled = True
End Try
End Sub
So I’ve been asked to show what is in the improved clear method. Here it is:
<Extension()>
Public Function ImprovedClear(ByRef Control as Control)
For Each controlchild as control in control.controls
Control.Dispose()
Next
Control.Controls.Clear()
Return Nothing
End Function

How can I embed a CefSharp webbrowser control in vb.net?

I need the dll files to be included in the form controls so as to insert the web browser control in the form itself ... how can I do? This time I really need help because I'm going crazy; if you help me, do me a big favor!
When you ad reference, add the browser control via code (as you can't do it via designer).
For example:
Public Sub New()
InitializeComponent()
Dim CefSharp_Settings As New CefSettings With {
.ResourcesDirPath = Application.StartupPath,
.LocalesDirPath = Application.StartupPath & "\locales",
.CachePath = Application.StartupPath & "\CefSharp Cache"
}
CefSharp_Settings.CefCommandLineArgs.Add("persist_session_cookies", "1")
CefSharp.Cef.Initialize(CefSharp_Settings)
chromeBrowser = New ChromiumWebBrowser("www.google.com") With {
.Dock = DockStyle.Fill
}
Me.Controls.Add(chromeBrowser)
End Sub

VB.Net Code on how to retrieve and navigate to a web page

Hello I'm having a hard time in navigating to a website I'm testin, I need to select all links and check each of them but I don't know how can I click the links or navigate through all the pages.
the website that I need to navigate and click on links
I tried using Html agility pack and I can't get the elements in the page
Dim doc As New HtmlAgilityPack.HtmlDocument()
Dim web As New HtmlAgilityPack.HtmlWeb()
web.UseCookies = True
doc = web.Load("https://hpe.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/Jobsathpe/0/refreshFacet/318c8bb6f553100021d223d9780d30be?ac=34824")
RichTextBox1.Text = doc.DocumentNode.OuterHtml
Look at this pattern in UWP . It is a good UI
https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2017/05/01/master-master-detail-pattern/#.WSrAkFuGID4.twitter#5QUhldJxwFXLjl3Y.97
Public Sub New()
InitializeComponent()
ViewModel.PropertyChanged += ViewModel_PropertyChanged
ArticleWebView.NavigationStarting += Function(s, e)
If e.Uri IsNot Nothing AndAlso Not Await e.LaunchBrowserForNonMatchingUriAsync(ViewModel.CurrentArticle.Link) Then
' In-app navigation, so hide the WebView control and display the progress
' animation until the page load is completed.
ArticleWebView.Visibility = Visibility.Collapsed
LoadingProgressBar.Visibility = Visibility.Visible
End If
End Function
ArticleWebView.LoadCompleted += Function(s, e)
ArticleWebView.Visibility = Visibility.Visible
LoadingProgressBar.Visibility = Visibility.Collapsed
End Function
End Sub

Add tooltip control dynamically

I have a child form that is completely created in code.
I would like to add tool tips to the textbox controls on the form. I know how to set up the tool tips on the fly but can't find a way to add the tooltip control to the form on the fly. All the hits I find on google refer to dragging the control from the designers toolbox.
I would need to do something like:
' Add tool tip control
Dim toolTip1 As New ToolTip()
toolTip1.ShowAlways = True
frm.Controls.Add(toolTip1)
This does not work
I tried adding a sub to handle the from.load event(with a handler that poitn to the sub) at design time but can not get passed the error "Tooltip1 is not declared" when adding the tooltip to the iundividual dynamic controls.
If I call this dynamic form from a parent form and add the tooltip control to the parent form I can use it for the child form. But how would I do this if I was creating the form from a routine that does not live on a parent form?
thanks
Dim frm As New Form
' Add tool tip control
''Dim toolTip1 As New ToolTip()
''toolTip1.ShowAlways = True
'Draw the Form object
'close the dynamic frm if existing already
If frm IsNot Nothing Then
frm.Close()
End If
frm = New Form()
frm.AutoScaleDimensions = New System.Drawing.SizeF(6.0F, 13.0F)
frm.AutoScaleMode = System.Windows.Forms.AutoScaleMode.Font
frm.Name = "frm_test"
'dimension is irrelevant at the moment
frm.ClientSize = New System.Drawing.Size(10, 10)
'the parent will be the current form
'frm.MdiParent = this;
'splash screen mode form, why not...
frm.ControlBox = True
frm.FormBorderStyle = System.Windows.Forms.FormBorderStyle.FixedSingle
frm.AutoSizeMode = System.Windows.Forms.AutoSizeMode.GrowAndShrink
frm.BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.LightGray
For Each item As MYFILE.Class in the Collection
Dim aTextBox As New TextBox()
aTextBox.Font = New System.Drawing.Font(sFont, Single.Parse(sSizeFont), System.Drawing.FontStyle.Regular, System.Drawing.GraphicsUnit.Point, CByte(0))
aTextBox.BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.Yellow
aTextBox.Location = New System.Drawing.Point(iNewColumnPosition + 5 + intMaxWidthLabel, intVertPos)
aTextBox.Size = New System.Drawing.Size(intWidthTextBox + 10, intGapHeight)
'store the biggest width, so that the textboxes can be vertically aligned
If intWidthTextBox > intMaxWidthText Then
intMaxWidthText = intWidthTextBox
End If
'giving a name to all your object will be the only way
'to retrieve them and use them
'for the purpose of this sample, the name can be the
'same for all textboxes.
aTextBox.Name = item.ParameterName
'giving the maximun size in caracters for the textbox.
aTextBox.MaxLength = Integer.Parse(item.ParameterLength)
toolTip1.SetToolTip(aTextBox, "TIP" & intIndex.ToString)
'tab have to be ordered
aTextBox.TabIndex = intIndex
intIndex += 1
'Vertical position is to be manage according the
'tallest object in the form, in this case the
'textbox it self
intVertPos += intGapHeight
'adding the textbox to the form
frm.SuspendLayout()
aTextBox.SuspendLayout()
frm.Controls.Add(aTextBox)
Next
I left a lot of code out but this should give you an idea as to what I am doing
In vb it is
Dim tooltip As New ToolTip(components)
tooltip.SetToolTip(textBox1, "This is a textbox tooltip")
Sorry this is not in VB.NET but I am pretty sure you can easily convert this. The first line is to set ToolTip control to your form components. The second is how you set a tooltip to a control and give it the related text.
ToolTip tooltip = new ToolTip(components);
tooltip.SetToolTip(textBox1, "This is a textbox tooltip");