The Basics
Hello, I’m Paul Hughes and I will be taking the steps of
building a web browser through Visual Basic.
You may think that building such a complex piece of software
would take months and perhaps years to do properly. Well no you are wrong. With
Visual Basic you can have a working Browser with just one line of code! The
reason for this is the library known as SHDOCVW.DLL. This is the main file in
Internet Explorer, and you can use it too.
Start a new project, and then to use the web browser control, go
to the Components menu and select Microsoft Internet Controls. Click on OK and
you should have a new icon which looks something like this:
Click on it, and then draw the size of the browser windows you
want on the form. You should now what appears to be a white box. Now for the one
piece of code which will make it work. Double click on the form.
Type in the following code in the code window(in the event known
as Form_load)
Webbrowser1.Navigate "Http:\www.thtproductions.co.uk"
Exit the code window and start the program. If you are on the
Internet, The browser should now go to the THT Productions Website. If you
aren’t connected a Dial-Up Networking Box will come with your connections etc.
Well Done you have made a extremely simple browser!!
This is something like what you should end up with….