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Use Internet Explorer 11 as Webbrowser on a LabVIEW UI

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‎03-18-2022 04:21 AM

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    Programming Language

  • LabVIEW G

Description

 

LabVIEW provides a WebBrowser control. It is a .NET control that contains an embedded Internet Explorer control. An example is provided here: https://knowledge.ni.com/KnowledgeArticleDetails?id=kA03q000000YKVvCAO&l=fr-CH

But infortunately, when a WebBrowser is called, Internet Explorer use Internet Explorer 7 engine to render the website. This is not usable to display a modern Website with HTML5 stuff. 

 

To render correctly a modern Website, we have to coerce Internet Explorer to use Internet Explorer 11 engine. It is possible to do that using Windows registers. This example modifies HK_Current_User. To Enable IE11 mode, we have to write the application name (.exe file) in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_BROWSER_EMULATION. In developement mode, it will be Labview.exe. 

More informations from Microsoft here : https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/internet-explorer/ie-developer/general-in...

 

This example VI writes in register. You have to restart once to take effect.

 

Without Internet Explorer 11 emulation (IE7):

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With Internet Explorer 11 emulation :

How to Use

 

Example code from the Example Code Exchange in the NI Community is licensed with the MIT license.

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