Displaying a local webpage

[FlamingBlade]

I can't figure out how to display a local webpage. I've tried messing with the webBrowser control but it keeps adding "http://" to the front of the local webpage address, and if I try to change it from within the code like this:

webBrowser1.Url = "file:\\webpage\Maphs v1.htm";

I get the following error:
error CS1009: Unrecognized escape sequence

Can anyone help me out? The page I want to display is just one page, and it is stored locally in the same folder as the program.

Thanks in advance for any help!

[LizR]

Try putting your slashes round the correct way, eg

file://webpage/whatever.html

[FlamingBlade]

Thanks for your response. I was experimenting with them the otherway round.

If I had them the correct way, I'd get this error:

error CS0029: Cannot implicitly convert type 'string' to 'System.Uri'

Any ideas?

[Jugortha]

The Uri type is not string so you have to implement the code as follow

webBrowser1.Url = new Uri( "file:\\webpage\Maphs v1.htm");

[FlamingBlade]

I just tried that. It compiled successfully but I got the following error at runtime:

Windows cannot access \\webpage\Maphs v1.htm
...
The network path was not found.

The file DOES exist at that location, which is all the more confusing...

[ddanbe]

Perhaps you could try webBrowser1.Navigate(urlstring) instead of webBrowser1.Url.

[LizR]

The file wont be at \\webpage\blah.htm, its at c:\webpage\blah.html
the \\something notation usually means machine name, is your PC really called "webpage"?

[FlamingBlade]

ddanbe: I tried "webBrowser1.Navigate(webpage/Maphs v1.htm)", that gave me a 404.

LizR:
The HTML file is in a directory called "webpage", which is in the same directory as the program.

I wanted a local reference to the file, so that if I wanted to move the program's directory, it would work anyway. Evidently, that didn't happen.
Is there a way to make a local reference like that? Or should I just give up and hardcode the path in (which works)?

[FlamingBlade]

You got me thinking about the location, and with some googling, I solved it.

I used "Application.ExecutablePath" to give me the location of the executable as a string, then added "webpage/maphs v1.htm" to it and used that - the webpage now displays.

Thanks for the help.