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Hi,

I am trying to use a particular website, using a WebBrowser component in a VB.Net app.

I do not have any control over the website that I am trying to access, but it works fine through Google Chrome.

Looking at the source of the website in question, it has the following form defined:

<form name="frmSearch" id="frmSearch" method="post" onSubmit="return false;" action="MeetingList.php">

Within this form, is the following button:

<a id="SPFundGoButtonLink" href="javascript:DoSearch(gnSearchFund);"><img id="SPFundGoButtonImage" src="4057/images/go.gif" border="0"></a>

If I visit this site in Google Chrome and click the above defined button, it works fine, however if I navigate to the same site in a WebBrowser component and click the same button it generates the following error:

'gnSearchFund' is undefined.

Any idea why this works in Chrome but not the WebBroswer component, and more importantly, can anyone think of a workaround for this?
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DevAdminSystem Engineer | .NET Developer | Microsoft MVP | Technical Speaker
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The WebBrowser control is a managed wrapper around a component installed with Internet Explorer how you car read in this link:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.windows.forms.webbrowser.version?view=netframework-4.7.2

When you try open with IE the page you have the same error?
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Use CefSharp browser instead
https://cefsharp.github.io/
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DevAdmin:

The page works fine in IE

Shaun Vermaak:

I'll give that a go, thanks.
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Try read this post abount Controlling WebBrowser Control Compatibility
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/patricka/2015/01/12/controlling-webbrowser-control-compatibility/
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No idea what to take from that document!
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Read the part about the registry key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_BROWSER_EMULATION
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I've followed the instructions for CEF, installed the NuGet package and set the target CPU to X64.

I then try to add a ChromiumWebBrowser component onto Form1, and I get the following error:

Failed to load toolbox item 'ChromiumWebBrowser'. It will be removed from the toolbox.

What am I doing wrong?
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Tried and failed to follow that document section.
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