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camilito

Wed Mar 30, 2005 8:48 am


help on a program that opens google and makes a search

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im trying to code something that will open a google page for example and fill in automatically a search criteria that the user inputs into a textbox in my program....

could somebody help? 8)


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Tony

Wed Mar 30, 2005 11:16 am



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.Net (you're interested in the latter)


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camilito

Thu Mar 31, 2005 9:18 pm


ok well..

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a google page was just an example ... how about a yahoo search ..or maybe a game site search... or something like that ..


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GlobeTrotter

Thu Mar 31, 2005 9:45 pm



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You could always just analyze the website adresses resulting from a search, and open a window to that.  For example: in google, open a website to "http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=(SEARCH ITEM HERE)&meta="


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camilito

Fri Apr 01, 2005 9:55 am


ummm..

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how would u code that in vb?....
is there anyway to open a webpage from vb?


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betaflye

Wed Apr 20, 2005 6:14 pm



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Declare the following API call at the top of your source code.

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

Ok then to open the webpage use the following function call


Call ShellExecute(0&, "open", "www.compsci.ca, "", "", SW_SHOW)

This will open the webpage in the default browser, as to how to make a search, you'll need to figure that out with the URL of the search engine :)


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diqua

Wed Apr 20, 2005 8:08 pm



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you would have to get the web control in your tool bar then you can put webpages right into your form.
right click on the controls area to see a menu