Is there anyway I can insert a Web Browser in visual basic, and then define an area on a website where if something is typed in, that string will be transferred to a TextBox.
Your could use watir to do do some automation of the IE browser control, which you can add to your application.
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I've been trying to figure out the ID of a button on a webpage in the VB webbrowser, but as VB uses an outdated web browser so the webpage loads differently to chrome so I can't figure out what the ID of the button is.
Is there any way I can get the ID of a focused element with some code?
Or alternatively, what web browser does VB use, so I can do figure it out manually.
Thanks!
I have a website where I am filling form data through VB.Net 2010 through WebBrowser control.
I am able to set value for input:text, input:password, checkbox, select and able to submit form.
But I am not able to select input:file programmatically. I am also able to open
"Choose a File" Dialog.
How can I send file name to select and press OK button from VB.Net Code?
I am pretty sure this is a browser security feature to prevent malicious web-sites from auto-uploading random files from the user's website to themselves. Consider how dangerous it would be if any website could pull arbitrary files off the user's computer without any explicit action from the user.
Your best bet is probably going to be dumping the Web Browser control since it will limit you to its security model. Instead consider directly getting the web page and posting a response within your application.
The following .NET namespaces should come in handy for that:
System.Net.HTTPWebRequest
System.Net.TTPWebResponse
Is it possible to control a openfiledialog which opens in the webbrowser
( example: www.tinypic.com )
i want to automaticly fill in the filelocation and than click 'Open'
No it wont work
It is a windows form class, so it doesnt work with web apps
you need to use an HtmlFileInput no alterantives unless you can use an ocx
or some java (not script).
this link may help as well
http://steveorr.net/articles/EasyUploads.aspx
I need to retrieve only selected portion of a webpage (user open a webpage in web-browser control, then he/she would select some portion of a webpage, i just need only those selected portion/text) in vb.net in visual basic language. How to do ?
i am using microsoft visual studio 2008
Language: Visual Basic
FrameWork: vb.net 3.5
Perhaps here are some answers for you(first post attachment):
Manipulate/Change/Form Fill data in webpages using the Webbrowser control
In terms of IE's API, you can get the select text by getting the selection object via IHTMLDocument2::Selection the property, then create a range object via IHTMLSelectionObject::createRange. If the return range's type property is "Text", you can then query IHTMLTxtRange from it and get the selected text via IHTMLTxtRange::text.
It is unclear which webbrowser control you are referring to. There are 3 webbrowser controls in the .Net Framework, one in Windows Forms, one in WPF, and one in Silverlight. Anyway, you can call InvokeScript or use the unmanaged interface like csexwb's GetSelectedText, if one of the method is supported by your control library.
Next time mention which control library you are using when you ask the question. Merely mentioning the language you choose isn't enough to resolve the ambiguity in class names.
I'm a noob to VB.NET and I was wondering how to make something you type into a textbox on the application type that text into a website textbox and submit whats in the textbox by pressing a button? I am using visual studio 2008.
That is a little tricky to do, but it is possible. However, without more details on the specific browser or what you are trying to copy over, you aren't going to get a lot of answers on here.
Better Suggestion: Have you considered instead of trying to control the browser via "voodoo", that you might just have your VB.NET application submit the form/request directly to the web server and cut out the middle-man (the browser)?
I'm assuming you're trying to POST data to a web form from some other application. Check this out; it's in C# but you can translate it to VB.NET. It uses a WebBrowser control and the SetAttribute method to set input values on the web form.
// C#
WebBrowser browser;
...
browser.Document.GetElementById("username").SetAttribute("value", "MyUsername");
...
form.InvokeMember("submit");