Dimming a webbrowser?

[werido]

 Dim wb As New WebBrowser
        wb.Navigate("http://google.com")
MsgBox(wb.Url.ToString)

WebBrowser1.Navigate("http://google.com")
MsgBox(WebBrowser1.Url.ToString)

How come the first one does not work? (The message shown is blank)

[motil]

try this:

 Dim wb As New WebBrowser
        Me.Controls.Add(wb)
        wb.Navigate("http://google.com")
        While (Not wb.ReadyState = WebBrowserReadyState.Complete)
            Application.DoEvents()
            If (wb.ReadyState = WebBrowserReadyState.Complete) Then
                MessageBox.Show(wb.Url.ToString)
            End If
        End While

[werido]

try this:

 Dim wb As New WebBrowser
        Me.Controls.Add(wb)
        wb.Navigate("http://google.com")
        While (Not wb.ReadyState = WebBrowserReadyState.Complete)
            Application.DoEvents()
            If (wb.ReadyState = WebBrowserReadyState.Complete) Then
                MessageBox.Show(wb.Url.ToString)
            End If
        End While

Is it possible to do without showing the webbrowser?

[motil]

yep just don't add it to the form (remove Me.Controls.Add(wb))

[Zeelia]

If you want to download information from the internet without showing anything visually, you might want to consider using a WebClient object instead.