DotNetBrowser
Developer(s)TeamDev
Initial release6 April 2015 (2015-04-06)
Stable release
2.24[1] Edit this on Wikidata / 3 October 2023
Written inC#, C++
Operating systemMicrosoft Windows, Linux, macOS
TypeFramework, Web browser
LicenseProprietary[2]
Websitehttps://teamdev.com/dotnetbrowser

DotNetBrowser is a proprietary .NET library that provides a Chromium-based engine which can be used to load and display web pages.[3] [4][5] It is developed and supported by TeamDev since 2015.

Features

Some main features are as follows:

  • Load and display the web page.
  • Embed a Chromium-based browser in a .NET desktop application as an Avalonia UI, WPF or Windows Forms control.[6]
  • Handle navigation and network events.
  • Access Document Object Model of the loaded web page.
  • Execute JavaScript on the loaded web page, inject .NET objects and call them from JavaScript[7][8][9]

Usage

Primary usage is embedding a browser into various .NET desktop applications and displaying the web pages.[10] DotNetBrowser can be used as a headless browser. The headless mode is also available on Linux and macOS.

Another known use-cases are creating web-based kiosk applications[11] and VSTO add-ins for Microsoft Office.[12]

More examples and use-cases are available in the DotNetBrowser Examples repository.

Example

WPF

XAML markup

<Window x:Class="Sample.Wpf.MainWindow"
        xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
        xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
        xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008"
        xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006"
        xmlns:wpf="clr-namespace:DotNetBrowser.Wpf;assembly=DotNetBrowser.Wpf"
        mc:Ignorable="d"
        Title="MainWindow" Height="450" Width="800" Closed="MainWindow_OnClosed">
    <Grid>
        <wpf:BrowserView x:Name="browserView"/>
    </Grid>
</Window>

C#

using System;
using System.Windows
using DotNetBrowser.Browser;
using DotNetBrowser.Engine;

namespace Sample.Wpf;

public partial class MainWindow : Window
{
    private readonly IEngine _engine;
    private readonly IBrowser _browser;
     
    public MainWindow()
    {
        InitializeComponent();
         
        // Create and initialize the IEngine
        _engine = EngineFactory.Create();
         
        // Create the IBrowser
        _browser = engine.CreateBrowser();
        _browser.Navigation.LoadUrl("https://teamdev.com/dotnetbrowser");
         
        // Initialize the WPF BrowserView control
        browserView.InitializeFrom(browser);
    }
     
    private void MainWindow_OnClosed(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        _browser.Dispose();
        _engine.Dispose();
    }
}

Windows Forms

C#

using System;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using DotNetBrowser.Browser;
using DotNetBrowser.Engine;
using DotNetBrowser.WinForms;

namespace Sample.WinForms;

public partial class Form1 : Form
{
    private readonly IEngine _engine;
    private readonly IBrowser _browser;
     
    public Form1()
    {
        InitializeComponent();
         
        // Create and initialize the IEngine
        _engine = EngineFactory.Create();
         
        // Create the Windows Forms BrowserView control
        var browserView = new BrowserView
        {
            Dock = DockStyle.Fill
        };
         
        // Create the IBrowser
        _browser = engine.CreateBrowser();
        _browser.Navigation.LoadUrl("https://teamdev.com/dotnetbrowser");
         
        // Initialize the Windows Forms BrowserView control
        browserView.InitializeFrom(browser);
         
        // Add the BrowserView control to the Form
        Controls.Add(browserView);
        Closed += Form1Closed;
    }
     
    private void Form1Closed(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        _browser.Dispose();
        _engine.Dispose();
    }
}

See also

References

  1. ↑ Error: Unable to display the reference properly. See the documentation for details.
  2. ↑ "DotNetBrowser Product Licence Agreement". TeamDev. TeamDev. Retrieved 12 March 2021.
  3. ↑ "DotNetBrowser on StackOverflow". Retrieved 14 March 2021.
  4. ↑ "DotNetBrowser on NuGet". Retrieved 14 March 2021.
  5. ↑ "c # - i want to get location information with dotnetbrowser".
  6. ↑ "Chromium Web Browser Control in .NET Applications". DZone.
  7. ↑ "DotNetBrowser and invalid external method call".
  8. ↑ "Using dotnetbrowser to call JavaScript function to c#". 14 June 2018.
  9. ↑ "The mutual call between the JS code of the DotNetBrowser internal page and the external C# code".
  10. ↑ "Creating an HTML UI for Desktop .NET Applications". InfoQ. InfoQ. Retrieved 12 March 2021.
  11. ↑ Mihika Kapoor (2 July 2016). "Frame Building with C# and VB.NET". medium.com. Retrieved 17 May 2021.
  12. ↑ "Using VSTO to develop Word AddIn, is there a third-party kernel that can replace webbrowser?". Retrieved 21 May 2021.
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