Displaying HTML on a C# Windows Form.

Kassem Sandarusi

15y11.7k.NET

Hello I was wondering how I would be able to display an html document without using webbrowser. The main reason why I don't wanna use the webbrowser is all I am using it for is like a changelog because I am creating an updater.

The problem with the webbrowser is it feels just way to bulky for my program in the sense that it encapsulates IE and I really just prefer a simple html reader. The only thing the html reader needs to read is text, I would just prefer html vs. txt because html offers you some decent formatting.

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Kassem Sandarusi15y ago
I meant I have an html document on a webserver that id like to show without having all the controls and stuff of a webbrowser control.
Sam Hobbs15y ago
After thinking some more about what you might be saying, perhaps what would help is a UserControl to format the text and a Repeater control to show multiple occurances of it. I am not sure whether the Repeater control is what you need but there is likely something you can use.
Ibrahim Ersoy15y ago
Try this:

http://htmlrenderer.codeplex.com/
Sam Hobbs15y ago
You say "prefer a simple html reader" and you say "prefer html vs. txt because html offers you some decent formatting" implying that you want to write HTML so I am confused.