WPF browser (and with a cool name, too...)

[Laurent Bugnion, GalaSoft]

Did you guys see this WPF browser? Seems pretty cool.

 

http://chriscavanagh.wordpress.com/2009/08/25/a-real-wpf-webbrowser/

 

Laurent

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[Jeremiah Morrill]

I ran across Awesomium once before and the thought did cross my mind a litle D3DImage/Chrome tryst...BUT, I'm glad someone else did it :)

 

How sad is it that Chrome has better integration with WPF than IE?

 

-Jer

[Mike Brown]

I had run across Awesomium before he had WPF bindings and shot him an email asking if he'd help me leverage his SDK to make a WPF browser...I guess he liked the idea a lot ;)

[Mike Brown]

Oh...someone else did the WPF binding over Awesomium. Yeah it's pretty wicked.

[Daniel Vaughan]

Looks interesting Laurent.

Did anyone go so far as to download the source. I was unable to debug
out-of-the-box.


On Aug 25, 9:06 pm, "Laurent Bugnion, GalaSoft" <laur...@galasoft.ch>
wrote:

> Did you guys see this WPF browser? Seems pretty cool.
>
> http://chriscavanagh.wordpress.com/2009/08/25/a-real-wpf-webbrowser/
>
> Laurent
>
> --
>
> Laurent Bugnion [Microsoft MVP, MCP]
>

> Blog:  <http://www.galasoft.ch/>http://blog.galasoft.ch
>
> Web:  <http://www.galasoft.ch/>http://www.galasoft.ch
>
> Support children in Calcutta:  <http://www.calcutta-espoir.ch/>http://www.calcutta-espoir.ch

[Jeremiah Morrill]

I had problems out of the box too.  Had to take some of the compiled dlls from his blog and replace them.  Didn't have time to find out the true problem area though.

I did notice he's using a WB to render.  It's pretty fast on my box (only ~2x more CPU taxing than running Chrome stand alone) That may be optimized some by using D3DImage instead (but ups the complexity ~10x).

Very cool stuff.  I hope the IE team will eventually give us low level hooks like this.  Airspace restrictions are atrocious no matter what smoke and mirrors you do to make them look a part of your UI.

-Jer