Get Info from IE and Outlook

Question

I am looking to write a vb program that will get the following info from IE each time a new page begins to load:

 

1. What is the URL of the page being loaded

2. What is the IP of the server it is getting the page from

3. What is the source of the page

 

I also am looking to get Outlook message contents (source) when a new message is opened.

 

I have so far only see threads about IE Automation but are C# specific, hoping to do this with VB .NET

 

Thanks for your help.

Answer 1

Don't tell me I stumpped all you guru programmers out there...

Answer 2

I'm sure this is possible, its just a question of how.

Answer 3

Hi Ryan,

 

Based on your post, you need to know the url of the opened websites.

 

You can use the following code snippet to get the information of the website which is currently opened by using IE. You need to add the reference to ms internet control and mshtml library. You can use the Timer component to check the current openging webpage timingly to get the url and html content. You can use System.Dns class to parse the server's IP address for your use. For more information about connecting IE, visit http://support.microsoft.com/kb/176792. Hope this helps.

Code Block

Imports mshtml

Public Class Form2

Dim WithEvents IE As SHDocVw.InternetExplorer

Dim WithEvents CurrentDoc As HTMLDocument

Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) _

Handles Button1.Click

Dim SWs As New SHDocVw.ShellWindows

Dim IEx As SHDocVw.InternetExplorer

For Each IEx In SWs

Try

If TypeOf (IEx.Document) Is HTMLDocument Then

IE = IEx

CurrentDoc = IE.Document

MessageBox.Show(CurrentDoc.url.ToString)

End If

Catch ex As Exception

End Try

Next

End Sub

End Class

 

 

In this thread, we are mainly discussing about IE information as indicated by the your post. Since your other question is not directly related to the original IE automation issue, it would be best if you open up a new thread for the outlook question. In this way, our discussion here will not deviate too much from the main issue. This will make answer searching in the forum easier and be beneficial to other community members as well. Thank you for your understanding.

 

Best regards,

Riquel

Answer 4

Thanks.  One last IE Automation question.  How would I pause then resume navigation to a site or if thats not possible stop then restart navigation to a site with ie?

Answer 5

Hi Ryan,

 

In this scenario We can use SHDocVw.InternetExplorer methods to implement this. There are Stop, Quit and Navigate methods to use. We can use these methods to close the specific webpage and open a new webpage. Hope this helps.

 

Best regards,

Riquel

Answer 6

Hi Riquel,

Could you indicate to dummies users like me an ad application to internet explorer that implements that the ryan describe?! Save navigation states to resume later?! Its were intersting if we cold save more than one state...

Thanks.