Alternative to Webbrowser control

Question

Has anyone found and used an alternative to the Microsoft Webbroswer ActiveX control with any success? The open source Firefox ActiveX version seems to be a dead project development wise and based on an old Firefox version.

Answer 1

Give a look to the GeckoFX Project, an open-source component for embedding Mozilla Gecko (Firefox) in .NET applications.

Written in clean, fully commented C#, GeckoFX is the perfect replacement for the default Internet Explorer-based WebBrowser control.

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Answer 2

I just installed Microsoft's WebView2 NuGet Package named "Microsoft.Web.WebView2" and dropped the control on a Windows Form and gave it a source to navigate to:

//Build your own URL
string sURL = $"https://auth.tdameritrade.com/auth?response_type=code&redirect_uri={sCallbackURLEncoded}&client_id={sConsumerKey}%40AMER.OAUTHAP";
//Set it as the source
wvLogin.Source = new Uri(sURL);

BAM! It worked. I wish I had known this was available before wasting time on browser controls that do not package well or testing browsers that cost $800 or $1500 for a single licencse.