Display HTML in Silverlight using WebBrowser

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Silverlight 4 introduces the WebBrowser control using which you can now display HTML based content in Silverlight.

Note: WebBrowser control only functions in Silverlight Out-Of-Browser applications

Let us see an example. Declare XAML with the following layout

<Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot" Background="White">
    <Grid.RowDefinitions>
        <RowDefinition Height="Auto"/>
        <RowDefinition />
    </Grid.RowDefinitions>
       
    <StackPanel Height="30" Margin="5" Orientation="Horizontal"
        VerticalAlignment="Top" Grid.Row="0">
        <TextBox x:Name="tbUrl" HorizontalAlignment="Left"
        Width="300" Margin="5" Text="http://www.devcurry.com" />
        <Button  x:Name="btnNav" Content="Click" Margin="5"
        Width="40" Click="btnNav_Click" />
    </StackPanel>
    <WebBrowser x:Name="wb"  Grid.Row="1" />       
</Grid>

The layout will be similar to the following:

Now code the button event handler

That’s it. Run the application and you can now view HTML content inside the Silverlight plugin

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Suprotim Agarwal, Developer Technologies MVP (Microsoft Most Valuable Professional) is the founder and contributor for DevCurry, DotNetCurry and SQLServerCurry. He is the Chief Editor of a Developer Magazine called DNC Magazine. He has also authored two Books - 51 Recipes using jQuery with ASP.NET Controls. and The Absolutely Awesome jQuery CookBook.

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