I am working in a desktop application using .NET/C#. I have written a function which gets a url as an input parameter and matches all opened browser windows with this and returns the html contents
of the document if window found. This is done very successfully. For this purpose i am using ShDocvw.dll and mshtml.dll. The problem is that i want to get images from this (DHTML) document as byte array or as a file whatever is possible. I tried hard to explore it but couldn't yet succeed. Anybody out there to help me. I'll be grately thankful.

        public static string GetIEDocContents(string Url)
        {
            SHDocVw.ShellWindows objWins = new SHDocVw.ShellWindows();
            mshtml.HTMLDocument objDoc;
            string strContents="";
            object refIndex = 1;

            foreach(SHDocVw.InternetExplorer objIE in objWins)
            {
                if(objIE.LocationURL==Url)
                {
                    objDoc = (mshtml.HTMLDocument) objIE.Document;
                    strContents= objDoc.body.parentElement.innerHTML;
                    if(strContents.IndexOf("<FRAME")>=0)
                    {
                        mshtml.FramesCollection objFrames = (mshtml.FramesCollection) objDoc.frames;
                        mshtml.IHTMLWindow2 objFrame = (mshtml.IHTMLWindow2)objFrames.item(ref refIndex);
                        strContents=objFrame.document.body.parentElement.i nnerHTML;
                    }

                    break;
                }
            }

            return strContents;
        }



BaburMan

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BaburMan

Well, no repsonse from anywhere , for the time being i have to parse the html i have got for the images i want and got them
from the web using webclient object provided by .NET. Although this is not an efficient solution yet it works and servers the purpose.


thanks



BaburMan

Will u please send me coding of the function to get containts of particular url's browser window at [email protected]

Bijgupt

The code i have posted above works perfectly provided you give a valid url from any of the opened internet explorer window on your machine. However as i mentioned you have to add a reference of microsoft.mshtml.dll and shdocvu.dll to your C# project.




BaburMan

Successfully got the url source and the images at least. But still i need to find the way to get the css, js and swf. Obviousely css and js script should be grabbed as text and swf as a binary stream or in the form which could be saved to disk. Still waiting from anybody to help or give any link which describes how to accomplish this. The source is as below;

public static string GetIEDocContents(string Url)
{
    SHDocVw.ShellWindows objWins = new SHDocVw.ShellWindows();
    mshtml.HTMLDocument objDoc;
    string strContents="";
    object refIndex = 1;

    foreach(SHDocVw.InternetExplorer objIE in objWins)
    {
        if(objIE.LocationURL==Url)
        {
            objDoc = (mshtml.HTMLDocument) objIE.Document;
            strContents= objDoc.body.parentElement.innerHTML;
            if(strContents.IndexOf("<FRAME")>=0)
            {
                mshtml.FramesCollection objFrames = (mshtml.FramesCollection) objDoc.frames;
                mshtml.IHTMLWindow2 objFrame = (mshtml.IHTMLWindow2)objFrames.item(ref refIndex);
                strContents=objFrame.document.body.parentElement.i nnerHTML;
            }

            string strElName;
            mshtml.IHTMLElement2 body2 = (mshtml.IHTMLElement2) objDoc.body;
            mshtml.IHTMLControlRange controlRange = (mshtml.IHTMLControlRange) body2.createControlRange();
            mshtml.IHTMLElementCollection objElCol;
            objElCol = objDoc.getElementsByTagName("IMG");

            foreach(mshtml.HTMLImg objImg in objElCol)
            {
                controlRange.add((mshtml.IHTMLControlElement)objIm g);
                controlRange.execCommand("Copy", false, System.Reflection.Missing.Value);
                controlRange.remove(0);
                strElName = objImg.nameProp;

                if (Clipboard.GetDataObject() != null)
                {
                    IDataObject data = Clipboard.GetDataObject();

                    if (data.GetDataPresent(DataFormats.Bitmap))
                    {
                        Image image = (Image)data.GetData(DataFormats.Bitmap,true);
                        if(strElName.Substring(strElName.IndexOf(".")+1).T oLower()=="jpg")
                            image.Save(@"c:\images\"+strElName, System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat.Jpeg);
                        else if(strElName.Substring(strElName.IndexOf(".")+1).T oLower()=="gif")
                            image.Save(@"c:\images\"+strElName, System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat.Gif);
                        else
                            strElName = strElName; //to put a breakpoint and debug to see what's this.
                    }
                    else
                        strElName = strElName;
                }
            }


            break;
        }
    }

    return strContents;
}

BaburMan