Visual Basic: Making a Simple Web Browser

In VB it's actually very easy to make a very simple web browser that you can type in a URL and just click go to navigate to the page you specified (and it will bring our skills so far together).
Here's how you do it:

Step 1: The Interface

Drag onto your form A "WebBrowser", a "Textbox", a "Button", and a "Label". The label will be the textbox the "URL" box, the textbox will be for the URL box, the button is the "Go" buton, and the WebBrowser is for the actual browsing of the web.

Step 2: The Programming

The code for the web browser is simple, just put the following in the "GO" button, click code:

WebBrowser1.Navigate(TextBox1.Text)

Step 3: The Testing

Now run the program (using the green debug arrow (looks like a play button)) and you have a very simple web browser!



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