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How to open new Internet Explorer Window (own new Process! and without toolbar + statusbar)?

Victor Rodriguez

Victor Rodriguez

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Hi,

I have the following request:

I would like to open via C# a new internet explorer window which has no toolbars, but when opening the window it has to be in a new internet explorer process.

I have managed to open the internet explorer explicitly in a new process with:

ProcessStartInfo startInfo = new ProcessStartInfo("IExplore.exe");
startInfo.WindowStyle =
ProcessWindowStyle.Maximized;
startInfo.Arguments = url;
Process process = new Process();
process.StartInfo = startInfo;
try
{
process.Start();
}
catch (Exception e)
{
MessageBox.Show("Exception - Could not start process!"+e, "Error", MessageBoxButtons.OK);
}

I also managed to start a new internet explorer window without toolbar and statusbar with following code:

SHDocVw.InternetExplorer ie = new SHDocVw.InternetExplorerClass();
IWebBrowserApp wb = (IWebBrowserApp)ie;
wb.MenuBar =
false;
wb.ToolBar = 0;
wb.StatusBar = false;
wb.Visible =
true;
wb.Navigate(url,
ref o, ref o, ref o, ref o);
//Maximize IE window, 3=maximize
ShowWindow(wb.HWND, 3);

But I don't know exactly how to do both at the same time, starting the IE in a new process and managing the appearance. We need to open the IE everytime in a new process as the opened web application needs that for session management.

Thanks in advance for your help

Regards

Victor