help on a program that opens google and makes a search

[camilito]

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)

[Tony]

Google's API

oh -- this is just too easy.

They even provide examples for Java and .Net (you're interested in the latter)

[camilito]

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

[GlobeTrotter]

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="

[camilito]

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

[betaflye]

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

[diqua]

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