Hi Rick,

Thanks for the information.

Before I checked your reply, and after posting this question, I figured it out by "Googling" the www and found one site where it was nicely explained.

I kinda liked VFPs simpler way of doing it though :)

Regards,

Mike



>You can't do this sort of thing in .NET because in .NET everything must be strongly typed. So dynamically accessing properties is not really possible.
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>There are two ways to work around this:
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>Using Reflection to access properties/methods dynamically
>Import the appropriate object model COM objects
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>The first requires explicit access to each of the object using the Type object and its various reflection properties like GetField()/GetProperty() etc. to set and retreieve values and call methods. This is a lot of work.
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>The other alternative is to import MSHTML.DLL as a COM reference or use the Microsoft.mshtml which is ONLY available with VS.NET - if you do make sure to Copy local on that assembly. Either way the assembly for MSHTML will be over 2 megs because the object model is huge.
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>Once you've done this though you can easily access the Web Browser control with full intellisense:
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>mshtml.HtmlDocument doc = (mshtml.HtmlDocument) this.Browser.Document
>string Body = doc.body.innerHtml;
>object Item = doc.getElementByID("txtTextBox");
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>The main thing is that you have to type everything explicitly, so in the case of GetElementById you'd have to cast to the proper Input object and so on.
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>Although it looks like more work it's actually much nicer because you get the support of strong typing plus the ability to have Intellisense help you through the entiry hierarchy.
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>The only major downer is the need to distribute hte 2 meg Interop assebmly.
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>+++ Rick ---
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>etc.
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>What you need to do is in addition to ad
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>>Help!
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>>I have a VFP8 form that contains the webBrowser ActiveX control. In VFP I could drill down thru the object hierarchy to get to individual elements in my HTML document.
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>>For example,
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>>WITH thisform.oBrowser.Document.frames('Content').document
>>	DO CASE
>>		CASE pcViewName = "1"
>>			oBlock = .getElementByID('block1')
>>			oBlock.style.display = ''
>>			oBlock = .getElementByID('block2')
>>			oBlock.style.display = 'none'
>>			oBlock = .getElementByID('block3')
>>			oBlock.style.display = 'none'
>>			oBlock = .getElementByID('block4')
>>			oBlock.style.display = 'none'
>>
>>.
>>.
>>.
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>>and this would effectively hide/display certain elements in my page.
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>>
>>Now when I try the same thing in C#, the compiler always complains. I'm trying the following syntax:
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>>

>>.
>>.
>>.
>>case "1":
>>    webHomePage.Document.frames("Content").document.getElementByID("block1").style.display = "";
>>    webHomePage.Document.frames("Content").document.getElementByID("block2").style.display = "none";
>>    webHomePage.Document.frames("Content").document.getElementByID("block3").style.display = "none";
>>    webHomePage.Document.frames("Content").document.getElementByID("block4").style.display = "none";
>>   break;
>>.
>>.
>>.
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>>

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>>I get an "'object' does not contain a definition for 'frames'" message.
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>>How do I drill down thru the DOM from .NET?
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>>TIA