is the dotnet 2 webbrowser control based on IE 6 or 7?

[James]

Hello,

wondering if the dotnet 2 webBrowser control available for windows forms
apps is based on IE 6 or 7?

 

[Josh Einstein]

It's based on whatever you happen to have installed. It's just a thin
wrapper over Shdocvw.dll.

Josh

 

[James]

hi, thanks for the reply.

I assume only whatever version of IE you have installed though right? or if
Firefox was your default browser would it be using that? Sorry, I googled
Shdocvw.dll but only got a very short description: "shdocvw.dll is a library
used by Windows applications to add basic file and networking operations",
so I'm not clear on what it does.

thanks again.

 

[Josh Einstein]

No, it will only use IE but whatever version of IE you have installed. So if
you run it on Windows 2003 with IE 6 installed, it uses IE 6. If you run it
on Windows 2008 with IE 7 installed, it uses IE 7, etc. It's like asking
what version of GDI+ Windows Forms uses - it's whatever happens to be there.

 

[Cor Ligthert[MVP]]

Have a look at Wikepedia

Cor

hi, thanks for the reply.

I assume only whatever version of IE you have installed though right? or
if Firefox was your default browser would it be using that? Sorry, I
googled Shdocvw.dll but only got a very short description: "shdocvw.dll is
a library used by Windows applications to add basic file and networking
operations", so I'm not clear on what it does.

thanks again.

 

[James]

got it, thank you.

No, it will only use IE but whatever version of IE you have installed. So
if you run it on Windows 2003 with IE 6 installed, it uses IE 6. If you
run it on Windows 2008 with IE 7 installed, it uses IE 7, etc. It's like
asking what version of GDI+ Windows Forms uses - it's whatever happens to
be there.

 

[James]

will do, thanks.

Have a look at Wikepedia

Cor