WebBrowser in Windows application

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Hi all,

Scenario:
I have a windows application with a Web Browser control in it.
There are hundreds of links in that web page, each linking to different documents.
On the click of every link, the document loads in the same webpage.

Now here is the question:
Is there a way so that after the web page is loaded completely, each of the link click event in the page is raised and hence the corresponding documents (which is nothing but 'href' of the links) are saved in a specified location in the computer.
[either through threading or else one after another]

Below is a little progress from my side.

C#

protected void doc_completed(object sender, WebBrowserDocumentCompletedEventArgs e)
       {          
           HtmlElementCollection mylinks = mywebBrowser.Document.GetElementsByTagName("A");

Posted 29-Sep-12 10:59am

pragaas.1988

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Solution 1

You can always use Html Agility Pack.

C#

HtmlWeb hw = new HtmlWeb();
 HtmlDocument doc = hw.Load(/* url */);
 foreach(HtmlNode link in doc.DocumentElement.SelectNodes("//a[@href]"))
 {

 }

Posted 29-Sep-12 21:31pm

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pragaas.1988 · Accepted Answer · 2012-09-30T18:53:00

Solution 2

I used the asyn file download function to download all the files that were linked in the web page.

C#

foreach(HtmlElement single_link in mylinks)
{
 WebClient client = new WebClient();
 client.DownloadFileAsync(new Uri("SomeURLToFile"),"SomePlaceOnLocalHardDrive");
}

Posted 30-Sep-12 18:53pm

pragaas.1988

Updated 30-Sep-12 18:54pm

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