Question

I’d like to create WebBrowser control programically in my code and then read page content.
I think I’m doing the same thing as designer does but control dynamically created doesn’t work (DocumentText return empty string)

What I’m doing wrong?

Edit 2: Code change after @Axarydax suggestion (working)

Main block code:

WebBrowser browser = new WebBrowser { Name = "myBrowser"};
browser.DocumentCompleted += browser_DocumentCompleted;
browser.Navigate("www.google.com");
while (pageLoaded == false)
{
  Thread.Sleep(500);       // pageLoaded is local field
  Application.DoEvents();  // didn't wotk without this...
}
Console.WriteLine(browser.DocumentText);

Event Handler code:

void browser_DocumentCompleted (object sender, WebBrowserDocumentCompletedEventArgs e )
{ 
    pageLoaded = true; 
}

Answer 1

Navigate method is asynchronous, so you should wait for NavigationComplete event to be fired.
Though, if you want HTML of the page, use System.Net.WebClient.