WPF WebBrowser Issues

Question

I am using the WebBrowser in WPF like this:

 <WebBrowser 
     Name="SSSBrowser" 
     Margin="8,4,8,8" 
     Grid.Row="1"            
     dp:WebBrowserUtility.BindableSource="{Binding WebAddress}"/>

And in C# I am loading it simply, for now, like this:

private string _webAddress;
public string WebAddress 
{
  get { return "http://www.somewebsite.com/updates/message/message.htm"; }
  set { _webAddress = value; }
}

What I would like to do is prevent it from displaying an error if they cannot reach the webpage, for whatever reason.

How do I keep tell if the website returned an error in code and disable the WebBrowser so that it doesn't give an error on screen to user?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Answer 1

Not sure via WPF, but if you use HttpWebRequest and HttpWebResponse to programatically try to fetch your url first, the response will give you the http StatusCode, i.e. 200, 404 etc. Might be useful if you want to check for a 200 first and disable the browser preemptively. Not exactly the answer to your question, but a possibility.