Re: WebBrowser control opening local file

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On 29 Jan 2007 13:37:56 -0800, linuxnooby@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

¤ Hi
¤
¤ I want a Web Browser Control to open a local file in Visual Basic
¤ 2005. It is a file "conditions.htm" that is in the same directory as
¤ the .net app. Is there a way of specifying a relative path rather than
¤ an absolute one? I have no control over where the application
¤ directory will be on the end user computer.
¤
¤ I have tried
¤
¤ WebBrowser1.Url = New Uri("conditions.htm")
¤ and
¤ WebBrowser1.Url = New Uri("file://conditions.htm")
¤
¤ But neither worked.
¤
¤ any suggestions?

The WebBrowser control doesn't understand relative paths.

Assuming the path is relative to your application you should just be able to use App.Path to create
the full path to the file, and then supply that value to the WebBrowser.


Paul
~~~~
Microsoft MVP (Visual Basic)
.

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