#winforms

found out via a old blog post (will edit later to link original post) that you have to delete a couple of files in your localappdata folder :p

so I made a small powershell script that automates it for you and deletes those files on every version of visual studio that is setup under the current account :3

You can use LoadHtml method, but only after document is fully loaded (dont confuse with DocumentReadyState.Ready) It works for me at least: private void WebControl_DocumentReady(object sender, DocumentReadyEventArgs e) { if (e.ReadyState != DocumentReadyState.Loaded) return; }

But as an initialisation, you should use Source property, like you wrote in your third update

I have been utilizing the Winforms Web Browser control (this one) for a feature (yes yes I know Winforms is old as the hills blah blah blah).

Anyway I wanted to add a fixed navigation bar like seen here. However whenever I did this using position:fixed; etc. it would not work.

I thought I was doomed to hack around this by adding another Web Browser control above the main form to use specifically for a naviagation bar. But I did stumble across this post from 2011.

Although this is mainly for the Internet Explorer Web Browser Control in WPF, I tried the “hack” of including a meta tag that overode the default rendering engine used by this control (I believe it IE7) and in doing so managed to get my navigation bar working!!!.

Simply include:

<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge" />

at the top inside your head tag and specify the content value. For what its worth I only needed to go upto IE10 support to get the Fixed Navigation bar CSS working.

Transparent Forms in VB.NET WinForms Applications

Creating transparent irregular shaped forms in a WinForms applications using Visual Basic is not too difficult. Using a photographic background with a transparent color, a programmer can create some really attractive interfaces. Of course creating an interface sans the standard titlebar chrome requires a bit more work and programming. However, if you want to provide a memorable interface that is…