Host/Embed Internet Explorer 8 application on Windows Forms Application

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I need to host/embed an exe application on Windows Forms.<br/><br/>For example: A "Notepad.exe" should be launched and display it within a panel of Windows Forms.<br/><br/>The following code works perfectly fine for Notepad,Windows Media Player and other respective applications.<br/>Drag and drop a button and panel on Windows Form.<br/><br/>And use the  following code:<br/><br/><span style="font-size:x-small [<span style="color:#2b91af;font-size:x-small <span style="color:#2b91af;font-size:x-small DllImport<span style="font-size:x-small (<span style="color:#a31515;font-size:x-small <span style="color:#a31515;font-size:x-small "user32.dll"<span style="font-size:x-small , SetLastError = <span style="color:#0000ff;font-size:x-small <span style="color:#0000ff;font-size:x-small true<span style="font-size:x-small )]<font size=2>
 
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<span style="color:#008000;font-size:x-small <span style="color:#008000;font-size:x-small    //System.Diagnostics.Process p = System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("notepad.exe");
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   p.WaitForInputIdle();
 
 
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   SetParent(p.MainWindowHandle,
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   SendMessage(p.MainWindowHandle, 274, 61488, 0);
 
 
 
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<br/><br/>The internet explorer does not get embedded in the panel and launched seperately ,where as notepad,windows media player,calculator gets launched & gets embeded in the panel.<br/><br/><br/>What are the corrections needs to be done to the code so as to embed "Internet Explorer 8" within the panel? Or Please suggest any other code snippet which is better than this and achieve the requirements.<br/><br/>I know that "WebBrowser" control is available in Windows Forms but I want to embed "Internet Explorer 8". I have similar kind of applications which are launched seprately and does not get embedded in the panel. 

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