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I've read somewhere that the webbrowser control in MS visual studio uses the same engine as the IE installed on my pc. Despite that I found out that this is not correct. And to prove my assumption I used various online browser detecting sites. I present the results here: (1) IE installed on my pc (both 64-bit and 32-bit): Browser Information: . Browser: Microsoft Internet Explorer Browser Version: 9.0 User Agent String: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/5.0)

(2) webbrowser control (C#): Browser Information: Browser: Microsoft Internet Explorer Browser Version: 7.0 User Agent String: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/5.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E)

I began to search about it because I had compatibility problems with the webbrowser control whenever I tried to access a specific site (which works fine despite the warnings). I used gecko 12 to simulate firefox but the site detected that I wasn't using the firefox and I got the warning message again... So the question is: how can I "cheat" and by-pass detection so that I won't get warning messages after every click? I'm looking for a programmatic way to do so.

pzogr
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It seems that there is no easy way to do this with programming. It's all in the registry. I can't understand why... Anyway, the answer is here. The webbrowser control uses the compatibility mode by default. Even if IE won't use the compatibility mode, the control will.

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Webbrowser control uses IE installed on machine. By default it is running in IE 7 compatability mode. To set your compatability mode you need to list your application in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_BROWSER_EMULATION with desired compatability mode.

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