WebBrowser Problem

I'm currently developping a netcf 2.0 application for wm 5.0 devices.

I've embedded a webbrowser control but i have three problems with it :

1- when i do webbrowser.document = "htmlcode" and there's pictures in the html code, the web browser start flicking.

2- The hyperlink in the browser does not seem to work. The navigating and navigated event are not fired when i click on a link.

3- I would like to be able to move the webbrowser to a specified anchor (#part1) using .net code but the navigate method only accept uri... if i try to open the html file + anchor (\\temp.html#part1) the document is opened ignoring the anchor.

Does anyone have a solution

Thanks a lot,

Elie Rodrigue

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WebBrowser Problem

Bulldog.NET
Unfortunately, this is a bug which does not have a workaround as far as we can tell. We are aware of this issue, and we believe it will be fixed in the next service pack.

David Wrighton

.NET Compact Framework
Dan Imbrogno
I have this problem too. I'm also setting the DocumentText of the WebBrowser. It starts flickering to and the hyperlinks do not work. I first thought, that I remove all links and pictures of the text, by doing a little bit RegEx.

But this is no valid solution. I need those icons and links working properly... Saving to a file is also not a valid solution to me...
vasudupe
I'm using a WM 5.0 device (eten m600 and dell axim x51v).
tschissler
I have exactly the same issue on a classic .NET framework. On the dev computers, no problem, the events are fired.
On any other computers, the events are not fired, but the navigate method works.

Problem spoted there :
http://www.msdner.com/dev-archive/56/2-8-569558.shtm

and here :
http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=2691914&SiteID=1

Maybe a link with that :
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/327135

Looking at the date of these posts, I hope that there is no trouble about it for one and a half year now.

Does someone knows what can visual studio install to make it work
ljc-ljc
The only way I was able to get around the constant flickering problem was to write the page html to a file and then use a file:// URI to navigate to it. If the html I tried to set using webBrowser.DocumentText had any images anywhere, the page would just constantly refresh. This is most definitely a bug. I only had the problem with hyperlinks not firing events on a Pocket PC 2003; it works fine on my Axim x51v. I haven't tried to use anchors, so I don't know about that one.

Deborah
jonathannah
I've seen the first two issues before, both of which seem to be bugs when you run CF 2.0 applications on PocketPC 2003 devices. Are you using a WM 5.0 device

Deborah
GeorgeY
Hello,

and what about the Navigating, Navigated, DocumentComplete event that are not fired ! Do you have any clue on this !

It's not limited to the compact Framework, I experience this kind of issue in the .Net "classical" framework as well.

Thanks in advance for your answer.

Seb
zrumchik
Well, writing to a text file then opening it with the webbrowser is not a option to me as i often need to open large html documents with lots of images (for a total size of 1.8 mB to 2.2 mB). And rewriting the file is impossible due to the file being opened by PIE. I prefer not to have to develop an algorithm to save the file to a different name then do cleanup later as a bug in the algorithm would cause a memory leak.
WebBrowser Problem

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