Reference for Visual Basic Developers

This section contains a reference guide for using the WebBrowser control with Microsoft Visual Basic. This reference covers all the supported properties, methods, and events associated with the WebBrowser and InternetExplorer objects.

Objects

Topic	Contents
InternetExplorer	Controls an instance of Windows Internet Explorer through automation.
WebBrowser	Adds browsing capabilities to your applications. For the Microsoft .NET Framework version of this control, see WebBrowser Control (Windows Forms).

 

Properties

Topic	Contents
AddressBar	Sets or gets a value that indicates whether the address bar of the object is visible or hidden.
Application	Gets the automation object for the application that is hosting the WebBrowser Control.
Busy	Gets a value that indicates whether the object is engaged in a navigation or downloading operation.
Container	Gets an object reference to a container.
Document	Gets the automation object of the active document, if any.
FullName	Retrieves the fully qualified path of the Internet Explorer executable.
FullScreen	Sets or gets a value that indicates whether Internet Explorer is in full-screen mode or normal window mode.
Height	Sets or gets the height of the object.
HWND	Gets the handle of the Internet Explorer main window.
Left	Sets or gets the coordinate of the left edge of the object.
LocationName	Retrieves the path or title of the resource that is currently displayed.
LocationURL	Gets the URL of the resource that is currently displayed.
MenuBar	Sets or gets a value that indicates whether the Internet Explorer menu bar is visible.
Name	Retrieves the frame name or application name of the object.
Offline	Sets or gets a value that indicates whether the object is operating in offline mode.
Parent	Gets the parent of the object.
Path	Retrieves the system folder of the Internet Explorer executable.
ReadyState	Gets the ready state of the object.
RegisterAsBrowser	Sets or gets a value that indicates whether the object is registered as a top-level browser window.
RegisterAsDropTarget	Sets or gets a value that indicates whether the object is registered as a drop target for navigation.
Resizable	Sets or gets a value that indicates whether the object can be resized.
Silent	Sets or gets a value that indicates whether the object can display dialog boxes.
StatusBar	Sets or gets a value that indicates whether the status bar for the object is visible.
StatusText	Sets or gets the text in the status bar for the object.
TheaterMode	Sets or gets whether the object is in theater mode.
ToolBar	Sets or gets whether toolbars for the object are visible.
Top	Sets or gets the coordinate of the top edge of the object.
TopLevelContainer	Gets a value that indicates whether the object is a top-level container.
Type	Gets the user type name of the contained document object.
Visible	Sets or gets a value that indicates whether the object is visible or hidden.
Width	Sets or gets the width of the object.

 

Methods

Topic	Contents
ClientToWindow	Computes the full size of the browser window when given the specified width and height of the content area.
ExecWB	Executes a command and returns the status of the command execution using the IOleCommandTarget interface.
GetProperty	Gets the value associated with a user-defined property name.
GoBack	Navigates backward one item in the history list.
GoForward	Navigates forward one item in the history list.
GoHome	Navigates to the current home or start page.
GoSearch	Navigates to the current search page.
Navigate	Navigates to a resource identified by a URL or to a file identified by a full path.
Navigate2	Navigates the browser to a location that might not be expressed as a URL, such as a pointer to an item identifier list (PIDL) for an entity in the Windows Shell namespace.
PutProperty	Associates a user-defined name/value pair with the object.
QueryStatusWB	Queries the object for the status of commands using the IOleCommandTarget interface.
Quit	Closes the object.
Refresh	Reloads the file that is currently displayed in the object.
Refresh2	Reloads the file that is currently displayed with the specified refresh level.
ShowBrowserBar	Shows or hides a specified browser bar.
Stop	Cancels a pending navigation or download, and stops dynamic page elements, such as background sounds and animations.

 

Events

Topic	Contents
BeforeNavigate	Fires before navigation occurs in the given object (on either a window or frameset element).
BeforeNavigate2	Fires before navigation occurs in the given object (on either a window element or a frameset element).
ClientToHostWindow	Fires to request that the client window size is converted to the host window size.
CommandStateChange	Fires when the enabled state of a command changes.
DocumentComplete	Fires when a document is completely loaded and initialized.
DownloadBegin	Fires when a navigation operation begins.
DownloadComplete	Fires when a navigation operation finishes, is halted, or fails.
FileDownload	Fires to indicate that a file download is about to occur. If a file download dialog box can be displayed, this event fires prior to the appearance of the dialog box.
NavigateComplete	Fires after a navigation to a link is completed on either a window element or a frameSet element.
NavigateComplete2	Fires after a navigation to a link is completed on a window element or a frameSet element.
NavigateError	Fires when an error occurs during navigation.
NewProcess	Creates a new process to handle the navigation.
NewWindow	Fires when a new window is to be created.
NewWindow2	Fires when a new window is to be created.
NewWindow3	Raised when a new window is to be created. Extends NewWindow2 with additional information about the new window.
OnFullScreen	Fires when the FullScreen property is changed.
OnMenuBar	Fires when the MenuBar property is changed.
OnQuit	Fires before the Internet Explorer application quits.
OnStatusBar	Fires when the StatusBar property is changed.
OnTheaterMode	Fires when the TheaterMode property is changed.
OnToolBar	Fires when the ToolBar property is changed.
OnVisible	Fires when the Visible property of the object is changed.
PrintTemplateInstantiation	Fires when a print template is instantiated.
PrintTemplateTeardown	Fires when a print template is destroyed.
PrivacyImpactedStateChange	Fired when an event occurs that impacts privacy, or when a user navigates away from a URL that has impacted privacy.
ProgressChange	Fires when the progress of a download operation is updated on the object.
PropertyChange	Fires when the PutProperty method of the object changes the value of a property.
RedirectXDomainBlocked	Fired when a cross-domain redirect request is blocked.
SetPhishingFilterStatus	Fires to indicate the progress and status of Microsoft Phishing Filter analysis of the current webpage.
SetSecureLockIcon	Fires when there is a change in encryption level.
StatusTextChange	Fires when the status bar text of the object has changed.
ThirdPartyUrlBlocked	Fired when a third-party URL is blocked.
TitleChange	Fires when the title of a document in the object becomes available or changes.
UpdatePageStatus	Not implemented.
WindowActivate	Not implemented.
WindowClosing	Fires when the window of the object is about to be closed by script.
WindowMove	Not implemented.
WindowResize	Not implemented.
WindowSetHeight	Fires when the object changes its height.
WindowSetLeft	Fires when the object changes its left position.
WindowSetResizable	Fires to indicate whether the host window should allow resizing of the object.
WindowSetTop	Fires when the object changes its top position.
WindowSetWidth	Fires when the object changes its width.
WindowStateChanged	Fires when the visibility state of a content window, such as the browser window or a tab, changes.

 

Enumerations

Topic	Contents
RefreshConstants	Contains values used with the Refresh2 method.
SecureLockIconConstants	Contains values used by the SetSecureLockIcon event.

 

Constants

Topic	Contents
NavigateError Event Status Codes	This page lists the possible values for the StatusCode parameter of the NavigateError event handler. These navigation-related error values are extracted from two documents: HTTP Status Codes and URL Moniker Error Codes. Follow the link for the status code you are interested in for a description of its meaning.