axwebbrowser wait problem

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hawk1ns

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Hello , a short description of what i want to do :

a friend has asked me to try this for him..

i have this working on a manual basis , i.e using buttons and manually inputting product number so i am nearly there

i input a number in a textbox ( item number )
then click browse button on application and the website appears in a axwebbrowser1 window
i then click on a view source btn and can view the html in a textbox

i can the sort and parce through the html to grab product info and image url etc

i will store this in a database when i am finished :)

the above works fine ...
but the idea is to set a loop from 1 to say 100000 and have the pages entered automaticaly....

heres the problem tho:

the loop goes way to fast and does not allow the web page to load before continuing to next step..

how can i enter a check so that everything stops untill the web page has fully loaded ?

Kind regards
Carl
 
if you only want to be able to navigate to the sites and retrieve the source of them sites / also be able to download images etc... why not use System.Net.WebClient ?
heres an example , just downloading 3 sites , with a 100 millisecond pause :
Code: 
    Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
        Dim strUrls() As String = "http://google.com [url]http://yahoo.com[/url] [url]http://msn.com[/url]".Split(" ")
        Dim x(3) As System.Net.WebClient

        Dim i As Integer
        For i = 0 To 2
            x(i) = New System.Net.WebClient()
            Dim st As New IO.StreamReader(x(i).OpenRead(strUrls(i)))
            MsgBox(st.ReadToEnd)
            Threading.Thread.Sleep(100)
            st.Close()
            x(i).Dispose()
        Next

    End Sub
 
thanks for the suggestions :)
I seem to have a problem with this line of the code :

Dim strUrls() As String = "http://google.com <a href="http://yahoo.com" target="_blank">http://yahoo.com</a> <a href="http://msn.com" target="_blank">http://msn.com</a>".Split(" ")

blue error lines on a few things
can you suggest why ?

Kind Regards
Carl
 
well i think i need to keep going the way i was , cos when i get the html by the way above i get a different page , it also says :
turn your browser scripting on.
:)
cheers
 
grabbing the url

hello , i have used the script above to display the html text in a textbox , i would now like to also put the actual url into this box.

basically i have some links for a php script on my website that used numbers in its directory , to try and catalogue i want to know where each link goes ..

for example http://somesite.com/phpscript?id=number
actually goes to a website so
the html i get from the code above displays the html code for the page but i also want to grab the url web address?

Kind Regards
Carl
 
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