C# how to wait for a webpage to finish loading before continuing

Question

Try the DocumentCompleted Event:

webBrowser.DocumentCompleted +=
    new WebBrowserDocumentCompletedEventHandler(webBrowser_DocumentCompleted);

void webBrowser_DocumentCompleted(object sender, WebBrowserDocumentCompletedEventArgs e)
{
    webBrowser.Document.GetElementById("product").SetAttribute("value", product);
    webBrowser.Document.GetElementById("version").SetAttribute("value", version);
    webBrowser.Document.GetElementById("commit").InvokeMember("click");
}

This code was very helpful for me. Maybe it could be for you also

wb.Navigate(url);
while(wb.ReadyState != WebBrowserReadyState.Complete)
{
     Application.DoEvents();
}
MessageBox.Show("Loaded");

Best way to do this without blocking the UI thread is to use Async and Await introduced in .net 4.5.
You can paste this in your code just change the Browser to your webbrowser name. This way, your thread awaits the page to load, if it doesnt on time, it stops waiting and your code continues to run:

private async Task PageLoad(int TimeOut)
    {
        TaskCompletionSource<bool> PageLoaded = null;
        PageLoaded = new TaskCompletionSource<bool>();
        int TimeElapsed = 0;
        Browser.DocumentCompleted += (s, e) =>
        {
            if (Browser.ReadyState != WebBrowserReadyState.Complete) return;
            if (PageLoaded.Task.IsCompleted) return; PageLoaded.SetResult(true);
        };
        //
        while (PageLoaded.Task.Status != TaskStatus.RanToCompletion)
        {
            await Task.Delay(10);//interval of 10 ms worked good for me
            TimeElapsed++;
            if (TimeElapsed >= TimeOut * 100) PageLoaded.TrySetResult(true);
        }
    }

And you can use it like this, with in an async method, or in a button click event, just make it async:

private async void Button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
   Browser.Navigate("www.example.com");
   await PageLoad(10);//await for page to load, timeout 10 seconds.
   //your code will run after the page loaded or timeout.
}

Check out the WatiN project:

Inspired by Watir development of WatiN started in December 2005 to make a similar kind of Web Application Testing possible for the .Net languages. Since then WatiN has grown into an easy to use, feature rich and stable framework. WatiN is developed in C# and aims to bring you an easy way to automate your tests with Internet Explorer and FireFox using .Net...