Looking for control that displays HTML

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Ray Cassick \(Home\)

I am looking for a control that displays simple HTML text (just basic tags,
not active content needed).

I know I can use the IE ActiveX control but really want to stay away from
the headaches if I can. There has to be some type of lite control out there
that can handle this. I am hacked off that the RTF control will not read
HTML. RTF tags are WAY too much work for what I need to do.


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Scott M.

You mean that you just want to be able to render HTML without it being
parsed by the browser? If so, just wrap your output inside
Server.HTMLDecode(). For example:

Label1.Text = Server.HTMLDecode("<BODY>") will cause <BODY> to be rendered
(not parsed) by the client.
 
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Ray Cassick \(Home\)

I have a windows forms control that I want to use to display some basic
formatted text to the user. I have an arraylist of classes that I want to
display the text of each class in a table style report.

I figured the very simple way would be iterate the arraylist, dereference
each class, get the data form each one, build a string that contains the
HTML for how I want the report to look and then send the string to a control
to have it rendered.

I currently have built a custom user control that does this, but it is
really messy and I think way more that I need. One simple light weight
control that could render some basic HTML would do the trick and I would not
have to worry about resizes etc..
 
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Cor Ligthert

Ray,

For that is the AXwebbrowser. Here a little sample how to use that, because
I have seen that in one of the steps something is often confusin. When you
do it like this than next time it is very easy.

Open a new windows application project

In the toolbox rightclick and select add/Remove items

In the customize toolbox select Com and in that Microsoft Webbrowser

When that is in the toolbox drag it to your form
Drag also a button to your form.

Then this code and you have a mini Webbrowser.

Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As
System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
Me.AxWebBrowser1.Navigate2("www.google.com")
End Sub

I hope this helps a little bit?

Cor
 
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Ray Cassick \(Home\)

Have you ever run into any project deployment issues doing this? I just hate
to have to worry about ActiveX control registration and stuff. This is why I
moved to DotNet in the first place :)

Can this be done using a string instead of a file reference?

I will have to look into it because although I put a lot of work into what I
have now I am just not happy with the results.
 

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