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WebBrowser control using project resources

I have a WinForm app with a WebBrowser control on it. I create HTML programmatically. How do I use images from the project's resources inside the HTML?
Visual Basic 2010 Express.

Public Class Form1
    Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
        WebBrowser1.DocumentText = "<html><body style='background-image:url(???);background-color:#DDEEFF'>Some text.</body></html>"
    End Sub
End Class
Solution

  • I've had a similar problem. Basically, the WebBrowser control doesn't work well when you set DocumentText directly.

    The solution I came up with is to implement a tiny HTTP server in your app and point the WebBrowser control to that url.

    You then have complete control over all the content.

    I wrote an article about it here: WebBrowserEx: WinForms WebBrowser + HTTP Server