how to automatically click search button in google visual basic . net - vb.net

Question

I have a form with textbox, button and a tabcontrol.
in the button I have this code :
[Dim browser As New WebBrowser()
TabPage1.Controls.Add(browser)
browser.Dock = DockStyle.Fill
browser.Navigate(New Uri("http://www.google.com"))]
The code above works, but I need to be able to search from my textbox and when I click the button it will take me to google and then automatically enter's the word I searched for in my textbox and then clicks the search on google button. I tried this but it does not work. Thanks
Dim textElement. As HtmlElement = browser.Document.All.GetElementsByName("q")(0)
textElement.SetAttribute("value", textbox.text")
Dim btnElement As HtmlElement = browser.Document.All.GetElementsByName("btnG")(0)
btnElement.InvokeMember("click")

Answer 1

I also needed to search in Google Browser with the text the User wanted and by adding the code below to the Button Click Event it did what I wanted.
Code:
Dim sInfo As New ProcessStartInfo("https://www.google.co.in/search?q=" & TXT_Entidade.Text)
Try
Process.Start(sInfo)
Catch ex As Exception
Process.Start("iexplore.exe", sInfo.FileName)
End Try

Answer 2

You'll need to set focus to the textElement before clicking the button.
textElement.Focus()
Otherwise, the page won't run the search apparently.
You can see this by trying the same basic steps you've got above in the Console window. They won't work until the field has had focus (from my testing).
(I also used the mshtml type library so that the click function was directly exposed in the full code below)
Imports mshtml
Public Class Form1
Private Sub Form1_Load(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
web.Navigate("http://www.google.com")
End Sub
Private Sub Button1_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
Dim textElement As HtmlElement = web.Document.All.GetElementsByName("q")(0)
textElement.SetAttribute("value", TextBox1.Text)
textElement.Focus()
Dim btnElement As HTMLButtonElement =
CType(web.Document.All.GetElementsByName("btnG")(0).DomElement,
HTMLButtonElement)
btnElement.click()
End Sub
End Class

Answer 3

I think you can use this in your button click handler...
browser.navigate("https://www.google.co.in/search?q="+textbox.Text)
This will search Google for the text in your Text Box.
You can search without "automatically clicking the search button" and you do not have to set the value in the text element of the html. This works for me. Hope this helps.