Win Forms Web Browser Object Causes Application to Crash - VS2008

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Hi,

I have a web browser object in one of my forms.

When I open the form and try and load this URL .... 'http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world/' the application crashes.

The same thing happens when the application is compiled and installed on a different machine and the above URL is loaded.

But if I try and load 'http://www.fsbonline.co.uk' in the same form the application does NOT crash.

The same thing happens if I try and load the pages within the Visual Studio 2008 environment; crashes for BBC but good for FSBonline.co.uk.

I am loading the page like so... WebBrowser1.Navigate("http://www.bbc.co.uk/news").

Up until a month or so ago I had no issues.

Operating System - Windows 7 64 bit and IE9 installed

Does any one have any ideas?

Thanks in advance,

Will

Posted 15-Jan-13 0:05am

CMS1968

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Apologies for the delay in replying.

Your code worked fine once I put it in a new project.

The issue seemed to be with the initial project.

In the end I created a new project and copied all the files across.

That seemed to cure it.

Slightly disconcerting that I had to do this.

Many thanks for your help.

Posted 20-Feb-13 4:40am

CMS1968

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OriginalGriff · Accepted Answer · 2013-01-15T00:11:00

It works fine for me - I placed a WebBowser on my form, added a button, and pasted your line of code into the Click event handler:

C#

void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
    webBrowser1.Navigate("http://www.bbc.co.uk/news");
    }

Click the button, the page laods, my app is fine.

Check your WebBrowser event handlers - you may have a problem there, or in unrelated code.