Have you done any research on suing the webbrowser control?  This allows you
to embed the Explorer in you r program and keep your controls custom to the
form.  I've played with it a bit and it is pretty powerful.   The only
problem I had was it created a new window when accessing physical drives, EX
C: drive and I wanted it to stay embedded.  All internet results are
embedded in the window.

For more examples of this visit:

http://www.planet-source-code.com/

Change the language to Visual Basic and search for "WebBrowser", there are
several sample programs on the site.

Hope this helps.

Thanks

Crane Whitehead
Programmer / Analyst
cwhitehead@h...
xxx.xxx.xxxx
 
Healthaxis
Computing and Network services
http://www.healthaxisasg.com


 -----Original Message-----
From: 	AJAX(r) [mailto:ajax@i...] 
Sent:	Friday, January 25, 2002 2:43 AM
Subject:	Re: Calling IE browser through VB

Hi,

Assuming that u can use API

# Open a standard EXE project.
# Add a TextBox, Name Text1   
# Add a command button, Name: Command1
# Paste the following code

Cheers,


'VB CODE

Option Explicit

Private Declare Function ShellExecute Lib "shell32.dll" Alias
"ShellExecuteA" _
(ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal lpOperation As String, ByVal lpFile As String, _
ByVal lpParameters As String, ByVal lpDirectory As String, ByVal nShowCmd As
_
Long) As Long



Private Sub Command1_Click()
    ShellExecute Me.hwnd, "Open", text1.text, vbNullString, vbNullString, 1
End Sub

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: ashay@w... 
  To: professional vb 
  Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 12:04 PM
  Subject: [pro_vb] Calling IE browser through VB


  hi,

  i want to open an IE browser window when a user clicks on a button on the 
  form application.The url is also entered by the user on the form text 
  box.How do we do this???????

  any help wud be highly appreciated.

  regards,
  ashay