[2005] Display image from axwebbrowser in picture box

[RickyH]

i want to display picture from website in a text box. However, this picture already shows up in the browser prior to my wanting to display it in a picturebox. My problem is, i dont want my app to download the image file a second time as many images are very large.

Is there anyway to dynamically grab the reference to the file from the axwebbrowser control's contents?

Currently i have no problem displaying the picture in the picbox using the following code:

Friend Sub ImageDisplayInPictureBox(ByRef myPicturebox As PictureBox, ByVal strUrl As String)
        myPicturebox.Image = New System.Drawing.Bitmap(New IO.MemoryStream(New System.Net.WebClient().DownloadData(strUrl)))
End Sub

I would imagine I would need to reference the axwebbrowser controls html doc and somehow find the substring of the picturebox, but how to display data in a seperate container outside of the web browser?

Any help would be appreciated.

[kleinma]

See this link for code on how to display an image in a picturebox simply by specifying the URL of the image

http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?t=387841

You could use the webclient.downloadstring() method to grab the source code of a given URL website, and then parse the image link out of there. However there is no way I know of to intercept the image as the browser loads it and not display it in the browser, but only display it in a picturebox.

I would think the image would be cached in the temporary internet files though, perhaps you could get it that way..

[jmcilhinney]

It's getting tedious but you could do as kleinma says, then edit the HTML code to remove the image, then load the new HTML into your Web browser.