Microsoft web browser control

Hey all, IF YOUR A GOD THEN ANSWER THIS. if you not but manage to answer this then you deserve to be a god.....

OK ive made a small demo project just to help people know what i wana try and do......

The concept

1, navigate to webpage
2, click a button, and save the webpage as a complete image.
3, knowing how to do this NO IDEA....

the sample project includes the web browser and everything else just need to make the bit that will save the file as a single document......

Everyone please just take a couple of minutes, download the code and take a look.....

Many Thanks

Carl

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Ummm come on people why am i answering my own questions.......

PRIRATE you dead man ?

Just for anyone who wants to know how to do this in the future heres the complete source code below....


OK now i understand everything whats going on how to do capture the DEVICE CONTEXT of the axwebbrowser control or mshtml control, they are probably closing the DC off and releasing the memory once painted how can this be intercepted ........

The vb code below takes and draws the control axWebBroswer fine you only want to take small screen shots, if you want to capture the entire page then you would need to grab the DC from the control, this i dont know how to do yet...

VB Code:

Imports System
Imports System.Drawing
Imports System.Drawing.Drawing2D
Imports System.Drawing.Imaging
Imports System.Collections
Imports System.ComponentModel
Imports System.Windows.Forms
Imports System.Data
Imports System.Runtime.InteropServices
 
 
Public Class WIN32
    Inherits System.Windows.Forms.Form
 
#Region " Windows Form Designer generated code "
 
    Public Sub New()
        MyBase.New()
 
        'This call is required by the Windows Form Designer.
        InitializeComponent()
 
        'Add any initialization after the InitializeComponent() call
 
    End Sub
 
    'Form overrides dispose to clean up the component list.
    Protected Overloads Overrides Sub Dispose(ByVal disposing As Boolean)
        If disposing Then
            If Not (components Is Nothing) Then
                components.Dispose()
            End If
        End If
        MyBase.Dispose(disposing)
    End Sub
 
    'Required by the Windows Form Designer
    Private components As System.ComponentModel.IContainer
 
    'NOTE: The following procedure is required by the Windows Form Designer
    'It can be modified using the Windows Form Designer.  
    'Do not modify it using the code editor.
    Friend WithEvents AxWebBrowser1 As AxSHDocVw.AxWebBrowser
    Friend WithEvents txtUrl As System.Windows.Forms.TextBox
    Friend WithEvents btnSubmit As System.Windows.Forms.Button
    Friend WithEvents Label1 As System.Windows.Forms.Label
    Friend WithEvents btnCompleteSave As System.Windows.Forms.Button
    <System.Diagnostics.DebuggerStepThrough()> Private Sub InitializeComponent()
        Dim resources As System.Resources.ResourceManager = New System.Resources.ResourceManager(GetType(WIN32))
        Me.AxWebBrowser1 = New AxSHDocVw.AxWebBrowser
        Me.txtUrl = New System.Windows.Forms.TextBox
        Me.btnSubmit = New System.Windows.Forms.Button
        Me.Label1 = New System.Windows.Forms.Label
        Me.btnCompleteSave = New System.Windows.Forms.Button
        CType(Me.AxWebBrowser1, System.ComponentModel.ISupportInitialize).BeginInit()
        Me.SuspendLayout()
        '
        'AxWebBrowser1
        '
        Me.AxWebBrowser1.Enabled = True
        Me.AxWebBrowser1.Location = New System.Drawing.Point(8, 64)
        Me.AxWebBrowser1.OcxState = CType(resources.GetObject("AxWebBrowser1.OcxState"), System.Windows.Forms.AxHost.State)
        Me.AxWebBrowser1.Size = New System.Drawing.Size(776, 496)
        Me.AxWebBrowser1.TabIndex = 0
        '
        'txtUrl
        '
        Me.txtUrl.Location = New System.Drawing.Point(16, 32)
        Me.txtUrl.Name = "txtUrl"
        Me.txtUrl.Size = New System.Drawing.Size(280, 20)
        Me.txtUrl.TabIndex = 1
        Me.txtUrl.Text = ""
        '
        'btnSubmit
        '
        Me.btnSubmit.Location = New System.Drawing.Point(304, 32)
        Me.btnSubmit.Name = "btnSubmit"
        Me.btnSubmit.Size = New System.Drawing.Size(75, 20)
        Me.btnSubmit.TabIndex = 2
        Me.btnSubmit.Text = "Submit"
        '
        'Label1
        '
        Me.Label1.Location = New System.Drawing.Point(16, 16)
        Me.Label1.Name = "Label1"
        Me.Label1.Size = New System.Drawing.Size(208, 23)
        Me.Label1.TabIndex = 3
        Me.Label1.Text = "Enter a website address below"
        '
        'btnCompleteSave
        '
        Me.btnCompleteSave.BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.Red
        Me.btnCompleteSave.Location = New System.Drawing.Point(384, 32)
        Me.btnCompleteSave.Name = "btnCompleteSave"
        Me.btnCompleteSave.Size = New System.Drawing.Size(128, 20)
        Me.btnCompleteSave.TabIndex = 4
        Me.btnCompleteSave.Text = "Save as complete file"
        '
        'WIN32
        '
        Me.AutoScaleBaseSize = New System.Drawing.Size(5, 13)
        Me.ClientSize = New System.Drawing.Size(792, 573)
        Me.Controls.Add(Me.btnCompleteSave)
        Me.Controls.Add(Me.btnSubmit)
        Me.Controls.Add(Me.txtUrl)
        Me.Controls.Add(Me.AxWebBrowser1)
        Me.Controls.Add(Me.Label1)
        Me.Name = "WIN32"
        Me.Text = "Form1"
        CType(Me.AxWebBrowser1, System.ComponentModel.ISupportInitialize).EndInit()
        Me.ResumeLayout(False)
 
    End Sub
 
#End Region
 
    Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
        Me.AxWebBrowser1.Navigate("http://www.msn.co.uk")
    End Sub
 
 
    Private Sub btnSubmit_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnSubmit.Click
        Me.AxWebBrowser1.Navigate(Me.txtUrl.Text)
        MsgBox(Me.AxWebBrowser1.HWND.MaxValue.ToString)
    End Sub
 
    Public Declare Function BitBlt Lib "gdi32" Alias "BitBlt" _
          (ByVal hDestDC As Integer, ByVal x As Integer, _
          ByVal y As Integer, ByVal nWidth As Integer, _
          ByVal nHeight As Integer, ByVal hSrcDC As Integer, _
          ByVal xSrc As Integer, ByVal ySrc As Integer, _
          ByVal dwRop As Integer) As Integer
 
 
    Public Declare Function GetWindowDC Lib "user32" Alias "GetWindowDC" _
        (ByVal hwnd As Integer) As Integer
 
    Public Declare Function ReleaseDC Lib "user32" Alias "ReleaseDC" _
        (ByVal hwnd As Integer, ByVal hdc As Integer) As Integer
 
    Public Const SRCCOPY As Integer = &HCC0020
 
    Private Sub btnCompleteSave_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnCompleteSave.Click
        Dim bmp As Bitmap
        Try
            bmp = Hardcopy.CreateBitmap(Me.AxWebBrowser1.Document)
        Catch ex As Exception
            MsgBox(ex.ToString)
        End Try
 
        bmp.Save("test.bmp")
    End Sub
 
End Class
 
Public Class Hardcopy
 
 
    Public Shared Function CreateBitmap( _
               ByVal Control As Control) _
                As Bitmap
 
 
        Dim gDest As Graphics
        Dim hdcDest As IntPtr
        Dim hdcSrc As Integer
        Dim hWnd As Integer = Control.Handle.ToInt32
 
 
        CreateBitmap = New Bitmap(Control.Width, Control.Height)
        gDest = gDest.FromImage(CreateBitmap)
 
 
        hdcSrc = WIN32.GetWindowDC(hWnd)
        hdcDest = gDest.GetHdc
 
 
        WIN32.BitBlt( _
              hdcDest.ToInt32, 0, 0, Control.Width, Control.Height, _
              hdcSrc, 0, 0, WIN32.SRCCOPY _
               )
 
 
        gDest.ReleaseHdc(hdcDest)
        WIN32.ReleaseDC(hWnd, hdcSrc)
 
 
    End Function
 
 
End Class