How to use Gecko in C#

Question

I need a Gecko WebBrowser Control

I need a sample code or a link which explains how to use GECKO

If anyone has used Gecko, I could do with some advice

Answer 1

Original tutorial with detailed snapshots can be found here.

A most recent update can be found here. Please upvote in that article if you find it useful :)

To embed Gecko browser in your winform application, you need:

• XulRunner: XULRunner is a Mozilla runtime package that can be used to bootstrap XUL+XPCOM applications that are as rich as Firefox and Thunderbird. It provides mechanisms for installing, upgrading, and uninstalling these applications. XULRunner can be downloaded here. Choose the version you like.

• GeckoFx .net assembly file, which you can download from here. Also choose the correct version which matches the XulRunner version.

• Unpack the GeckoFX-330.zip, you will get below files:

• Add references to the dlls as shown above, click browse and select the Geckofx-Core.dll and Geckofx-Winforms.dll

• In the toolbox, right click, and then select “Choose Item”, select Geckofx-Winforms.dll, and the Gecko winform control will be shown in the toolbox

• Drag a GeckoWebBrowser control to the winform designer, and let’s call it “browser”

• In the form1.cs file, add below code:

The line Gecko.Xpcom.Initialize(@”..\xulrunner”); specifies where the xulrunner runtime is located. In this case, we put it into a folder (@”..\xulrunner”).

Now run the application, yeah~~~

Answer 2

You should check out http://code.google.com/p/geckofx/. To get some code samples see the Wiki page.