Is it possible to Embed Gecko or Webkit in a Windows Form just like a WebView?

Question

I\'d love to know if there is such a thing as a Gecko.NET ;) I mean, just like we can embed a WebView and that is an \"instance\" of IE7 inside any Windows Forms application

Answer 1

OpenWebKitSharp is a wrapper arount the WebKit engine (nightly) and is very advanced. Take a look at here (OpenWebKitSharp section): http://code.google.com/p/open-webkit-sharp/

Answer 2

http://code.google.com/p/geckofx/

This is a nice .NET-wrapped version of Gecko

Answer 3

Update 2016:

BrowseEmAll.Gecko

A .Net component which can be used to integrate the Firefox engine into your .Net application. This is based on Geckofx but unlike the current version of Geckofx this will work with a normal release build of Firefox. To use Geckofx you will need to build Firefox yourself. Again commercial support is available but the component itself is fully open source.

(Full disclosure: I work for this company so take everything I say with a grain of salt)

Answer 4

@Martin: Yes, the Adam Locke version is outdated. But that's because a separate distribution is not necessary. It's built with the rest of the Mozilla codebase now.

If you download Prism (ie XulRunner), that will give you a base that you can customize to your needs, and this includes the most recent version of the control (in the \Prism\xulrunner directory, you'll find mozctlx.dll).

@Greg: Actually, it is an ActiveX control. Incidentally, all ActiveX controls are COM controls. ActiveX is built on COM.

Answer 5

I Belive "Gecko FX"[1] is the thing you need.

To Quote from the web site

""" GeckoFX is a Windows Forms control written in clean, commented C# that embeds the Mozilla Gecko browser control in any Windows Forms Application. It also contains a simple class model providing access to the HTML and CSS DOM. """

1) I can't post a link as "new users aren't allowed to add hyperlinks" Search for "geckofx" on google code.

Answer 6

GeckoFX is no longer being updated. The alternative is the MozNet XulRunner wrapper by Se7en Soft. MozNet has a ton of features that GeckoFX doesn't and is being actively updated and maintained.