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Does the WPF WebBrowser control always use Internet Explorer or does it use the default web browser on the system ?
Regards, MadSeb
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WPF Browser applications (or XAML Browser applications, or XBAP) are a specific kind of application that are compiled into . xbap extensions and can be run in Internet Explorer.
WPF only runs on windows. You can make a type of wpf application called xbap which runs in a browser.
The WebBrowser control provides a managed wrapper for the WebBrowser ActiveX control. The managed wrapper lets you display Web pages in your Windows Forms client applications.
Windows Presentation Foundation is a UI framework that creates desktop client applications. The WPF development platform supports a broad set of application development features, including an application model, resources, controls, graphics, layout, data binding, documents, and security. WPF is part of .
One issue the Web Browser Control has that it’s perpetually stuck in IE 7 rendering mode by default. Even though IE 8 and now 9 have significantly upgraded the IE rendering engine to be more CSS and HTML compliant by default the Web Browser control will have none of it. IE 9 in particular – with its much improved CSS support and basic HTML 5 support is a big improvement and even though the IE control uses some of IE’s internal rendering technology it’s still stuck in the old IE 7 rendering by default.
This applies whether you’re using the Web Browser control in a WPF application, a WinForms app, a FoxPro or VB classic application using the ActiveX control. Behind the scenes all these UI platforms use the COM interfaces and so you’re stuck by those same rules.
See this: Web Browser Control – Specifying the IE Version
http://www.west-wind.com/weblog/posts/2011/May/21/Web-Browser-Control-Specifying-the-IE-Version
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Internet Explorer, though there are "hacks" posted on the internet which allow you to use a workaround in order to launch any browser you like.
This thread seems to explain one of the possible solutions.
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