HTML Renderer

[Michael C]

Anyone know of a good HTML Rendering control? I need a control that will
render and display HTML in a Windows form. It doesn't need to pull down
HTML pages from the Web - I'll feed it all the HTML it needs to display.
I've already spent way too much time trying to get the Microsoft WebBrowser
control to work, and I have too many other things to work on to waste any
more time on it. If you know of any third-party HTML Renderers out there,
please let me know.

Thanks,
Michael C., MCDBA

[Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]]

Michael,

I don't understand why you wouldn't use the webbrowser? How are you
trying to feed the HTML to it? It's pretty simple, you can do it through
memory, or through a file, or through a number of other mechanisms.
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"Michael C" <mi*******@opto nline.net> wrote in message
news:uF******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP09.phx.gbl...

Anyone know of a good HTML Rendering control? I need a control that will
render and display HTML in a Windows form. It doesn't need to pull down
HTML pages from the Web - I'll feed it all the HTML it needs to display.
I've already spent way too much time trying to get the Microsoft
WebBrowser
control to work, and I have too many other things to work on to waste any
more time on it. If you know of any third-party HTML Renderers out there,
please let me know.

Thanks,
Michael C., MCDBA

[Michael C]

There's nothing to understand. It generates an application error every time
I shut down the application. No one can explain why, no one has a solution,
several people have had similar (if not the exact same) issue. The
unstoppable error messagebox at shutdown is a deal-breaker. Plain and
simple.

So I ask again, does anyone know of a decent HTML Renderer?

Thanks,
Michael C., MCDBA

"Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]" <mv*@spam.guard .caspershouse.c om> wrote in
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Michael,

I don't understand why you wouldn't use the webbrowser? How are you
trying to feed the HTML to it? It's pretty simple, you can do it through
memory, or through a file, or through a number of other mechanisms.
--
- Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]
- mv*@spam.guard. caspershouse.co m

"Michael C" <mi*******@opto nline.net> wrote in message
news:uF******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP09.phx.gbl...

Anyone know of a good HTML Rendering control? I need a control that will render and display HTML in a Windows form. It doesn't need to pull down
HTML pages from the Web - I'll feed it all the HTML it needs to display.
I've already spent way too much time trying to get the Microsoft
WebBrowser
control to work, and I have too many other things to work on to waste any more time on it. If you know of any third-party HTML Renderers out there, please let me know.

Thanks,
Michael C., MCDBA

[Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]]

Michael,

Actually, I would disagree. Because I have not seen this behavior
myself, I can't really say that there is a reason to go with something else.
If you can post an example of where it gives this, then it's possible that
an error could be pointed out, or in the case that there is no error on the
part of the code, a workaround.

Can you post an example?

--
- Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]
- mv*@spam.guard. caspershouse.co m

"Michael C" <mi*******@opto nline.net> wrote in message
news:OU******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP09.phx.gbl...

There's nothing to understand. It generates an application error every
time
I shut down the application. No one can explain why, no one has a
solution,
several people have had similar (if not the exact same) issue. The
unstoppable error messagebox at shutdown is a deal-breaker. Plain and
simple.

So I ask again, does anyone know of a decent HTML Renderer?

Thanks,
Michael C., MCDBA

"Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]" <mv*@spam.guard .caspershouse.c om> wrote
in
message news:%2******** ********@TK2MSF TNGP11.phx.gbl. ..

Michael,

I don't understand why you wouldn't use the webbrowser? How are you
trying to feed the HTML to it? It's pretty simple, you can do it through
memory, or through a file, or through a number of other mechanisms.
--
- Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]
- mv*@spam.guard. caspershouse.co m

"Michael C" <mi*******@opto nline.net> wrote in message
news:uF******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP09.phx.gbl...

> Anyone know of a good HTML Rendering control? I need a control that will > render and display HTML in a Windows form. It doesn't need to pull
> down
> HTML pages from the Web - I'll feed it all the HTML it needs to
> display.
> I've already spent way too much time trying to get the Microsoft
> WebBrowser
> control to work, and I have too many other things to work on to waste any > more time on it. If you know of any third-party HTML Renderers out there, > please let me know.
>
> Thanks,
> Michael C., MCDBA
>
>

[Michael C]

Sure. My code works perfectly well, until I drop in the WebBrowser control.
I won't include all the Windows Generated WebBrowser code, because I don't
change any of it (I can copy and paste the Windows Generated code later if
you really feel it's necessary). Here's the code I add myself:

object novalue = System.Reflecti on.Missing.Valu e;
object url = "http://www.microsoft.c om";
axWebBrowser1.N avigate2(ref url, ref novalue, ref novalue, ref novalue, ref
novalue);

Here's the error I get after shutting down (but *only after adding this
code*):

..NET-BroadcastEventW indow.1.0.5000. 0.3: myApplication.e xe - Application
Error
The exception unknown software exception (0xc0020001) occurred in the
application at location 0x77e73887.
Click on OK to terminate the program

I've reproduced this error on 8 different machines now (have added one more
since the last time, this one with .NET 1.1 SP 1 installed). It gives this
error a few seconds *AFTER* the Windows Form shuts down. How do you work
around that?

Thanks,
Michael C., MCDBA

"Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]" <mv*@spam.guard .caspershouse.c om> wrote in
message news:%2******** ********@TK2MSF TNGP11.phx.gbl. ..

Michael,

Actually, I would disagree. Because I have not seen this behavior
myself, I can't really say that there is a reason to go with something else. If you can post an example of where it gives this, then it's possible that
an error could be pointed out, or in the case that there is no error on the part of the code, a workaround.

Can you post an example?

--
- Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]
- mv*@spam.guard. caspershouse.co m

"Michael C" <mi*******@opto nline.net> wrote in message
news:OU******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP09.phx.gbl...

There's nothing to understand. It generates an application error every
time
I shut down the application. No one can explain why, no one has a
solution,
several people have had similar (if not the exact same) issue. The
unstoppable error messagebox at shutdown is a deal-breaker. Plain and
simple.

So I ask again, does anyone know of a decent HTML Renderer?

Thanks,
Michael C., MCDBA

"Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]" <mv*@spam.guard .caspershouse.c om> wrote
in
message news:%2******** ********@TK2MSF TNGP11.phx.gbl. ..

Michael,

I don't understand why you wouldn't use the webbrowser? How are you trying to feed the HTML to it? It's pretty simple, you can do it through memory, or through a file, or through a number of other mechanisms.
--
- Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]
- mv*@spam.guard. caspershouse.co m

"Michael C" <mi*******@opto nline.net> wrote in message
news:uF******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP09.phx.gbl...
> Anyone know of a good HTML Rendering control? I need a control that

will

> render and display HTML in a Windows form. It doesn't need to pull
> down
> HTML pages from the Web - I'll feed it all the HTML it needs to
> display.
> I've already spent way too much time trying to get the Microsoft
> WebBrowser
> control to work, and I have too many other things to work on to waste

any

> more time on it. If you know of any third-party HTML Renderers out

there,

> please let me know.
>
> Thanks,
> Michael C., MCDBA
>
>

[Joep]

Just a thought, is there a left over that should have been trashed? The left
over still running and missing the app or similar? Some compo thingy
perhaps?

[Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]]

Michael,

I did the exactly as you said in the email, and I did not get any errors
upon shutdown. Do you get this same error when you use the web browser
control in say, a VB6 application? If so, then it would suggest that it is
not .NET, but the web browser control itself.

Also, the eight machines, are they the same configuration (relatively)?
I only ask because if there is a plugin, a browser helper object, or
something of that nature in Internet Explorer which is causing the problem
(it definitely seems like an unmanaged code exception), then I wonder if it
is present in all of the machines where you have tried this on.

Also, the version of Internet Explorer that I am running is the latest,
with XP SP2 installed.

My guess is that this is in an enterprise, where the distributions are
very similar, and that there is a plug in, or a setting for IE that is
causing the error.

--
- Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]
- mv*@spam.guard. caspershouse.co m

"Michael C" <mi*******@opto nline.net> wrote in message
news:u6******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP15.phx.gbl...

Sure. My code works perfectly well, until I drop in the WebBrowser
control.
I won't include all the Windows Generated WebBrowser code, because I don't
change any of it (I can copy and paste the Windows Generated code later if
you really feel it's necessary). Here's the code I add myself:

object novalue = System.Reflecti on.Missing.Valu e;
object url = "http://www.microsoft.c om";
axWebBrowser1.N avigate2(ref url, ref novalue, ref novalue, ref novalue,
ref
novalue);

Here's the error I get after shutting down (but *only after adding this
code*):

.NET-BroadcastEventW indow.1.0.5000. 0.3: myApplication.e xe - Application
Error
The exception unknown software exception (0xc0020001) occurred in the
application at location 0x77e73887.
Click on OK to terminate the program

I've reproduced this error on 8 different machines now (have added one
more
since the last time, this one with .NET 1.1 SP 1 installed). It gives
this
error a few seconds *AFTER* the Windows Form shuts down. How do you work
around that?

Thanks,
Michael C., MCDBA

"Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]" <mv*@spam.guard .caspershouse.c om> wrote
in
message news:%2******** ********@TK2MSF TNGP11.phx.gbl. ..

Michael,

Actually, I would disagree. Because I have not seen this behavior
myself, I can't really say that there is a reason to go with something

else.

If you can post an example of where it gives this, then it's possible
that
an error could be pointed out, or in the case that there is no error on

the

part of the code, a workaround.

Can you post an example?

--
- Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]
- mv*@spam.guard. caspershouse.co m

"Michael C" <mi*******@opto nline.net> wrote in message
news:OU******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP09.phx.gbl...

> There's nothing to understand. It generates an application error every
> time
> I shut down the application. No one can explain why, no one has a
> solution,
> several people have had similar (if not the exact same) issue. The
> unstoppable error messagebox at shutdown is a deal-breaker. Plain and
> simple.
>
> So I ask again, does anyone know of a decent HTML Renderer?
>
> Thanks,
> Michael C., MCDBA
>
> "Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]" <mv*@spam.guard .caspershouse.c om>
> wrote
> in
> message news:%2******** ********@TK2MSF TNGP11.phx.gbl. ..
>> Michael,
>>
>> I don't understand why you wouldn't use the webbrowser? How are you >> trying to feed the HTML to it? It's pretty simple, you can do it through >> memory, or through a file, or through a number of other mechanisms.
>>
>>
>> --
>> - Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]
>> - mv*@spam.guard. caspershouse.co m
>>
>> "Michael C" <mi*******@opto nline.net> wrote in message
>> news:uF******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP09.phx.gbl...
>> > Anyone know of a good HTML Rendering control? I need a control that
> will
>> > render and display HTML in a Windows form. It doesn't need to pull
>> > down
>> > HTML pages from the Web - I'll feed it all the HTML it needs to
>> > display.
>> > I've already spent way too much time trying to get the Microsoft
>> > WebBrowser
>> > control to work, and I have too many other things to work on to
>> > waste
> any
>> > more time on it. If you know of any third-party HTML Renderers out
> there,
>> > please let me know.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Michael C., MCDBA
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>
>

[Joep]

Does the WindowClosing event fire? Perhaps the following is relevant:

"http://www.kbcafe.com/iBLOGthere4iM/?guid=200405011 50250"?

[Michael C]

Try it in a multithreaded app. and see if you get the same results.

I've investigated the heck out of this over the past 2 days, and I've found
some good leads. There are quite a few people who have posted similar
items, and I've e-mailed a guy at microsoft who blogs and claims he's aware
of 6 or 7 causes of this problem, although he seems to hold most of his info
pretty close to the vest.

I'm pretty certain I know why this is happening, and it has nothing to do
with configuration, settings, third-party tools, etc. I'm 99% sure I know
the cause of this problem; I'm 100% sure I don't know how to work around it.
So rather than wasting more time playing with code hoping I accidentally
stumble across a solution, I'd much rather just use a control that won't
error out when I shut down my app.

Thanks,
Michael C., MCDBA

"Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]" <mv*@spam.guard .caspershouse.c om> wrote in
message news:eV******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP15.phx.gbl...

Michael,

I did the exactly as you said in the email, and I did not get any errors upon shutdown. Do you get this same error when you use the web browser
control in say, a VB6 application? If so, then it would suggest that it is not .NET, but the web browser control itself.

Also, the eight machines, are they the same configuration (relatively)? I only ask because if there is a plugin, a browser helper object, or
something of that nature in Internet Explorer which is causing the problem
(it definitely seems like an unmanaged code exception), then I wonder if it is present in all of the machines where you have tried this on.

Also, the version of Internet Explorer that I am running is the latest, with XP SP2 installed.

My guess is that this is in an enterprise, where the distributions are
very similar, and that there is a plug in, or a setting for IE that is
causing the error.

--
- Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]
- mv*@spam.guard. caspershouse.co m

"Michael C" <mi*******@opto nline.net> wrote in message
news:u6******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP15.phx.gbl...

Sure. My code works perfectly well, until I drop in the WebBrowser
control.
I won't include all the Windows Generated WebBrowser code, because I don't change any of it (I can copy and paste the Windows Generated code later if you really feel it's necessary). Here's the code I add myself:

object novalue = System.Reflecti on.Missing.Valu e;
object url = "http://www.microsoft.c om";
axWebBrowser1.N avigate2(ref url, ref novalue, ref novalue, ref novalue,
ref
novalue);

Here's the error I get after shutting down (but *only after adding this
code*):

.NET-BroadcastEventW indow.1.0.5000. 0.3: myApplication.e xe - Application
Error
The exception unknown software exception (0xc0020001) occurred in the
application at location 0x77e73887.
Click on OK to terminate the program

I've reproduced this error on 8 different machines now (have added one
more
since the last time, this one with .NET 1.1 SP 1 installed). It gives
this
error a few seconds *AFTER* the Windows Form shuts down. How do you work around that?

Thanks,
Michael C., MCDBA

"Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]" <mv*@spam.guard .caspershouse.c om> wrote
in
message news:%2******** ********@TK2MSF TNGP11.phx.gbl. ..

Michael,

Actually, I would disagree. Because I have not seen this behavior
myself, I can't really say that there is a reason to go with something

else.

If you can post an example of where it gives this, then it's possible
that
an error could be pointed out, or in the case that there is no error on

the

part of the code, a workaround.

Can you post an example?

--
- Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]
- mv*@spam.guard. caspershouse.co m

"Michael C" <mi*******@opto nline.net> wrote in message
news:OU******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP09.phx.gbl...
> There's nothing to understand. It generates an application error every > time
> I shut down the application. No one can explain why, no one has a
> solution,
> several people have had similar (if not the exact same) issue. The
> unstoppable error messagebox at shutdown is a deal-breaker. Plain and > simple.
>
> So I ask again, does anyone know of a decent HTML Renderer?
>
> Thanks,
> Michael C., MCDBA
>
> "Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]" <mv*@spam.guard .caspershouse.c om>
> wrote
> in
> message news:%2******** ********@TK2MSF TNGP11.phx.gbl. ..
>> Michael,
>>
>> I don't understand why you wouldn't use the webbrowser? How are

you

>> trying to feed the HTML to it? It's pretty simple, you can do it

through

>> memory, or through a file, or through a number of other mechanisms.
>>
>>
>> --
>> - Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]
>> - mv*@spam.guard. caspershouse.co m
>>
>> "Michael C" <mi*******@opto nline.net> wrote in message
>> news:uF******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP09.phx.gbl...
>> > Anyone know of a good HTML Rendering control? I need a control that > will
>> > render and display HTML in a Windows form. It doesn't need to pull >> > down
>> > HTML pages from the Web - I'll feed it all the HTML it needs to
>> > display.
>> > I've already spent way too much time trying to get the Microsoft
>> > WebBrowser
>> > control to work, and I have too many other things to work on to
>> > waste
> any
>> > more time on it. If you know of any third-party HTML Renderers out > there,
>> > please let me know.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Michael C., MCDBA
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>
>

[Michael C]

Exactly.

Thanks,
Michael C., MCDBA

"Joep" <St***@DeStoep. nl> wrote in message
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Just a thought, is there a left over that should have been trashed? The left over still running and missing the app or similar? Some compo thingy
perhaps?