How do I reference a local resource in generated HTML in WinForms WebBrowser control?

Question

I\'m using a winforms webbrowser control to display some content in a windows forms app. I\'m using the DocumentText property to write the generated HTML. That part is wor

Answer 1

Here's what we do, although I should mention that we use a custom web browser to remove such things as the ability to right-click and see the good old IE context menu:

public class HtmlFormatter
{
    /// 

    /// Indicator that this is a URI referencing the local
    /// file path.
    /// 
    public static readonly string FILE_URL_PREFIX = 
        "file://";

    /// 

    /// The path separator for HTML paths.
    /// 
    public const string PATH_SEPARATOR = "/";
}


// We need to add the proper paths to each image source
// designation that match where they are being placed on disk.
String html = HtmlFormatter.ReplaceImagePath(
    myHtml, 
    HtmlFormatter.FILE_URL_PREFIX + ApplicationPath.FullAppPath + 
    HtmlFormatter.PATH_SEPARATOR);

Basically, you need to have an image path that has a file URI, e.g.