[thelist] manipulate IE from VB?

Jackson Yee jyee at vt.edu
Wed Jul 17 16:17:01 CDT 2002


----- Original Message -----
From: "Plunkett, Matt" <MPlunkett at MSA.com>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 15:58
Subject: RE: [thelist] manipulate IE from VB?


> Hrm.  I'm more looking for a way of controlling a web browser's active
page
> without actually touching it directly with mouse or key actions.  Would be
> used for testing if such a thing exists.

Back in the old days, I would have used the Spyglass DDE interface for this.
Nowadays, you can control an instance of Internet Explorer through OLE
automation and the InternetExplorer object, although I'm not quite sure how
to do this in Visual Basic, as I'm used to working in a C++ environment.

You can try looking through the documentation at MSDN at

http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/browser/webbrowser/reflist_vb.asp?frame=t
rue

or if you're familiar with DDE, you can try

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q160957

Regards,
Jackson Yee
jyee at vt.edu
http://www.jacksonyee.com/




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