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Asked: 2026-05-31T04:05:59+00:00

I’m currently trying to move over a screen-scraping program (c# forms application) to a

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I’m currently trying to move over a screen-scraping program (c# forms application) to a WCF service.

The screen-scraping program uses WebBrowser to grab info off several pages for which there is no API. I would like to know if you can run WebBrowser in a service let alone a form. I’m currently developing on XP to be release on Server 2003.

Currently when running unit test, I can only see the WebBrowser if it was made on the “Unit Test” side and even then I need to manually pop up MessageBox‘es to get WebBrowser to stop from not navigating with a blank screen.

The program is being moved and split up since we are having multi-threading issues.

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  1. Editorial Team

    You would be better off using a headless browser like Phantom.js: http://www.phantomjs.org/. It offers significant features and has no problem being executed wherever you need like a regular command – line program.

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