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DotNetBrowser

Developer(s) TeamDev
Initial release 6 April 2015; 9 years ago (2015-04-06)
Stable release 2.27.1[1] Edit this on Wikidata / 30 May 2024
Written in C#, C++
Operating system Microsoft Windows, Linux, macOS
Type Framework, Web browser
License Proprietary[2]
Website https://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.

Some main features are as follows:

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.

XAML markup

<wpf:BrowserView x:Name="browserView"/>

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();
}

}

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();
}

}

  1. ^ https://teamdev.com/dotnetbrowser/release-notes/2024/v2-27-1.html.
  2. ^ "DotNetBrowser Product Licence Agreement". 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. Archived from the original on 2021-05-19. Retrieved 2021-05-19.
  7. ^ "DotNetBrowser and invalid external method call". 13 June 2020.
  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". Archived from the original on 2021-05-19. Retrieved 2021-05-19.
  10. ^ "Creating an HTML UI for Desktop .NET Applications". 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?". Archived from the original on 21 May 2021. Retrieved 21 May 2021.