(RESOLVED) embedded email client component? - OR - a better WebBrowserControl?

[BruceG]

Hey team,
Just putting some feelers out there - does anyone know of an embedded email client component/control that can be used in a VB.NET app? The concept similar to what was done back in the day with embedded OLE, where you could for example, use Excel embedded in a VB form.

The use case is this: Client has several GMail accounts. What he would like to do is, rather than launch GMail separately and login into the desired account, is have our current VB app, which serves as "command central" for his office functions, have a form with a tab control on it, where each tab represents one of these GMail accounts, and in each tab is this embedded email client I am speaking of. When you go to a particular tab, the Inbox for that email account is displayed, and you can open an email, reply to it, work with attachments, etc.

Not looking to roll my own here, and I would not expect such a component to be free. Just looking to see if anyone is aware of the existence of such a component.

[BruceG]

I may have been barking up the wrong tree ... I'm thinking what is really called for is a WebBrowser control, but not the built-in one as I believe it is a wrapper for an older version of IE and would not be suitable. I came across DotNetBrowser from TeamDev. Is anyone familiar with this, or similar product? Any recommendations?

[jmcilhinney]

If you want to embed a browser control in a .NET app then you should probably use WebView2. The WebBrowser control was to IE as the WebView control was to the original Edge browser and the WebView2 control is to the current, Chromium-based Edge browser.

[BruceG]

Nice, WebView2 looks like a promising option.

[BruceG]

Checked out WebView2. Looks like that's going to be a winner. Thanks, jmcilhinney.