Question

When I instantiate an IE object and navigate to a url, I don’t know how to obtain the source HTML code from that address.

This is the code I’m using:

SHDocVw.InternetExplorer IE = new SHDocVw.InternetExplorer();
IE.Visible = false;
IE.Navigate("www.testsite.com");

I want something like:

string source = IE.ToSource();

So I can inspect the content of it.
Can I achieve this? Thanks.

Answer 1

Try that:

SHDocVw.InternetExplorer IE = new SHDocVw.InternetExplorer();
IE.Visible = false;
IE.Navigate("www.testsite.com");
mshtml.IHTMLDocument2 htmlDoc 
         = IE.Document as mshtml.IHTMLDocument2;
string content = htmlDoc.body.outerHTML;

You can access the whole HTML string from the body.parent property:

string content = htmlDoc.body.parent.outerHTML;

You can see a nice example here (the example in c++)