progressbar and web browser

[glug]

Hi Guys

I've searched google and can only come up with answeres using the webbrowser control and the ProgressChanged event.
using the properties of

 Me.ToolStripProgressBar1.Maximum = e.MaximumProgress
        Me.ToolStripProgressBar1.Value = e.CurrentProgress

I am not using the webbrowser control but declairing a vairable as type Webbrowser.

dim browser as Webbrowser = new webbbrowser

How can i use the progressbar with this browser i just declaired?

[jmcilhinney]

What do you think this code does?

dim browser as Webbrowser = new webbbrowser

It creates a new WebBrowser control. The very WebBrowser control you say you aren't using.

If you aren't displaying the WebBrowser control to the user then it's pointless. Just use a WebClient object instead. If you are showing the WebBrowser to the user then handle its ProgressChanged event as you already know how to. You attach a method to the event with the AddHandler statement, the same as you do for any objects, controls or otherwise, created at run-time.

[glug]

Thanks. I have two text boxes on my form. username ans password.

With the webbrowser i navigate to the url and then use GetElementByID

        
        Dim elemEmail As HtmlElement
        Dim elemPassword As HtmlElement
        Dim elemSubmit As HtmlElement
        Try
            'Gets the elements ID "email and password"
            elemEmail = browser.Document.GetElementById("login_name")
            elemPassword = browser.Document.GetElementById("password")

            'inserts the email and password into the Webbrowser textboxes
            elemEmail.InnerText = email
            elemPassword.InnerText = password


            elemSubmit = browser.Document.Forms(0)

            'clicks on the login button
            elemSubmit.InvokeMember("submit")

            Return True
        Catch ex As Exception

            Return False
        End Try

This is my function that insert text into the username and password
for a certain website. The user musn't see the webbrowser

How is this suppose to be done using the WebClient? I cant find anything in the properties.