MyBrowser - Kickstart C# , Make your own Web Browser in few easy steps

• Prerequisites:: Microsoft Visual Studio 2008

• Intended for:: Beginners

Create a New C# Windows Forms Application Project

Set New C# Project, select Windows Forms Application and name your application as MyBrowser then click Ok

You will see a default Form in FormDesigner pane

You will See This Form ready to put controls on it

Change its Text Property as MyBrowser

Change its Size to 640x480

From the toolbox place a flow layout panel onto the Form

You will notice a square as under, Dock it to Parent using the small arrow on its top right corner

Next Place a Textbox onto the flowpanel from the toolbox, resizing to almost 75% of the form

Next Place a button also from the toolbox, change its text property to 'Go'

Then place a WebBrowser control, and resize it accordingly dragging its bottom right corner to your forms extreme bottom right corner

Your form design is ready, it will look as under:-

Press F5 to see it work, You can Make it look as Cute as possible

Now its time to write some functionality i.e we would like to pick the text from the textbox when the user clicks the go button the browser control should load the desired page

To program this action, Double Click the Go Button

And place the following code in the function 'button1_Click(bla bla)'

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String w = textBox1.Text;

webBrowser1.Url = new System.Uri("http://"+w);

webBrowser1.Refresh();

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Press F5, Your minimalistic browser is now Functional

e.g Type in a website name (for now don't type http://)

www.islamtoday.com

make sure you are already connected to the internet and hit go

There You are, Have Fun, You can improve it to your liking

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