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Nok Imchen
Nok Imchen

Reputation: 2842

Web browser independent of IE

I would like to make a web browser for my own use with various customizations. However, in VB6 the various web related control like winsock, inet fetch only html. Using webbrowser control is not the answer because it uses the same settings as windows IE. What I'd like to know is a control somewhat like the webbrowser but independent of windows IE setting. So that the changes made in IE wont effect my web browser. And also the webbrowser control does not have features such as blocking a specific image/CSS according to URL etc.

What I want to know is that if it’s not possible to do with VB6, is it possible with Visual Basic 2010 Express?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 796

Answers (1)

Abbas
Abbas

Reputation: 6886

winsock is a general purpose socket library and can communicate over the Internet to get all sort of data, not just HTML. And that's the answer to your question. If for some reason you want to create your own browser, you need to start from winsock.

Also, Visual Basic 2010 Express is the name of a particular version of IDE which is used to build programs in VB.NET which is the replacement for VB6. In conclusion, you can build your browser in either VB6 or VB.NET, however, I would recommend VB.NET as Microsoft has retired VB6 as a product and a technology.

Upvotes: 3

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