How to create a basic web browser in Visual Studio 2015

TESTED WITH VISUAL STUDIO COMMUNITY 2015. SHOULD WORK WITH OLDER AND NEWER VERSIONS BUT NOT GUARANTEED.

Here is how to create a simple web browser with Visual Studio. This example covers the basics of the WebBrowser tool in Visual Studio and how it works. The web browser example contains only the basic components of a web browser: an address bar and a button that tells the program to load the URL entered into the address bar.

First, fire up Visual Studio and click Create New Project. Choose Windows Form Application. Call the application what you want your web browser to be called. As this is not SeaSurf or WebNet, I am calling it WebBrowserExample but you can call it what ever you like.

Click OK and the project should load.

You should see the designer for the project. Resize the window shown in the design.

Click on the properties of Form1, and change the text to what you want the title of your window to be.

Then click on Toolbox and drag in a Button and a TextBox.

Then drag in a WebBrowser.

Now double click on the GO! button (or whatever you renamed it to in properties) and you should see the application’s code.

Here is the code for the GO! button:

string Webpage = textBox1.Text.Trim();
webBrowser1.Navigate(Webpage);

Save and run the web browser. Build “yourappname.exe” to be able to share it online!

Hope you like it! I may post future tutorials about adding Back and Forward buttons.

Epic Chas Gamer 😀