Pull the current URL address from Internet Explorer

[garyusenet]

Hi,

I am writing a utility to help me in Internet Explorer.

How do i access Internet Explorer information.

For starters I would like to read the current URL from internet
explorer, into a variable in my programme. How do i do this?

Thankyou

Gary

 

[garyusenet]

I'm getting somewhere with this.
I have learnt that I need to include Shdocvw.dll into my project. And
then use the following code...

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;


namespace InternetExplorerInterface
{
public partial class Form1 : Form
{
public Form1()
{
InitializeComponent();
}

private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
foreach (InternetExplorer ie in new ShellWindows())
{
MessageBox.Show(ie.HWND);
MessageBox.Show(ie.LocationName);
MessageBox.Show(ie.LocationURL);

}

}
}
}
However when i run this my code can't find ShellWindows() - i'm guess
this is because i haven't included it's namespace in my using
directives.. But i'm having trouble finding out which namespace it
belongs to.

Also I do not really understand what a dll is (my limited understanding
before was that it was a driver file for a device) but that isn't
sufficing now as i'm getting into programming.

Can someone clarify this for me please? And also suggest why my code
isn't compiling.

TIA

 

[garyusenet]

This is a slow day for the group today! Not many replies. I guess the
learned programmers must be involved in their own projects!

Not to worry about this thread anymore, after much investigation i've
solved it!

 

[John Timney \(MVP\)]

Gald you have solved it, I was going to suggest you take a look at
http://www.pinvoke.net, as it has the windows API's fairly well covered and
might have been of use to you.

Keep it for future reference

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[Jorge Varas]

here is an example, you will need to add references to Microsoft.mshtml (ActiveX) and SHdocVw

SHDocVw.ShellWindows SWs = new SHDocVw.ShellWindows();

object Doc;

foreach (SHDocVw.InternetExplorer IE in SWs)

{

Doc = IE.Document;

if (Doc.GetType().FullName == "mshtml.HTMLDocumentClass")

{

mshtml.HTMLDocumentClass oHTML = (mshtml.HTMLDocumentClass)Doc;

if (oHTML.title != "")

{

}

}

}