How to get a reference to IE Window?

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How to get a reference to IE Window?
to use window.external javascripts in a web browser running in a sidebar. 
Juan Carlos Ruiz Pacheco




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 Joined: 2010-05-11
Hi, I have a Sidebar , in this sidebar exists a WebBrowser displaying a webpage,
in this webpage i have a javascript to install some web slices for the user, but the script doesnt work because in its context window.external doesn't exist.

Looking around internet I found that you could use WebBrowser.ObjectForScripting to set the external window, if you are using a windows form you can set this property to reference the current form...

but because of the script needs to run under IE8 broswer i believe i need to set WebBrowser.ObjectForScripting to IE window, but I don't know where in Add-In Exprress can I find this IE Window object.

plz helpme.
Juan Carlos Ruiz
Microsoft MVP Visual C#
Systems Engineer
MCP, OCA, OCP
Posted 24 May, 2010 09:07:30 Top
Sergey Grischenko


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Hi Juan.

You can use the following code: this.HTMLDocument.parentWindow
Posted 24 May, 2010 11:40:24 Top
Muller Stephan




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 Joined: 2010-03-11
e.g. 

this.HTMLDocument.parentWindow.execScript("alert('hello');","javascript")


should work fine .-)
Posted 28 May, 2010 07:22:29 Top
Sergey Grischenko


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Hi Stephan.

Thanks for the help.
Posted 28 May, 2010 09:21:16 Top