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
InternetExplorer
Controls a remote 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
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
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 the specified 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 Microsoft Windows Shell namespace.
PutProperty
Sets the value of a property associated 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
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.
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.
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.
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
RefreshConstants
Contains values used with the Refresh2 method.
SecureLockIconConstants
Contains values used by the SetSecureLockIcon event.
Constants
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.