C# windows forms interacting with web browser

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I have developed a Windows Form application in C# that interacts with a phone system.

I would like to add click to dial functionality to the application.

When I click on a telephone number in a web browser I would like to copy the telephone number into a string and execute some code in my Windows Form application.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

What I have tried:

I have looked into using Selenium but it seems that the user must be using an instance of Chrome that Selenium has created to complete the above task.

Posted 8-Mar-17 23:00pm

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Updated 8-Mar-17 23:19pm

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Did a Google for you , lots of answers;

get Text from any Browser (IE,Chrome, FireFox, etc)[^]

Posted 8-Mar-17 23:18pm

Michael_Davies

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Member 12883479 9-Mar-17 5:28am

Hi, i'd like to get text from web browser from outside of the Windows Form application. Chrome,IE etc.

From that article is uses "webbrowser1", how do I create this object and link it to my chosen internet browser? Thanks

F-ES Sitecore 9-Mar-17 6:40am

the "webbrowser1" code is for when you are using an embedded WebBrowser control in a form in your app. You can embed WebBrowser the same way you embed a TextBox or GridView.

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F-ES Sitecore · Accepted Answer · 2017-03-08T23:19:00

You'll probably need to implement a custom protocol handler for "tel". Chances are you already have one, look at the registry here;

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\tel

Regardless you'll need to hook into that

Registering an Application to a URI Scheme (Windows)[^]

This will obviously require the html is valid for a usable phone number

<a href="tel:0123456789">0123456789</a>

To preempt your next question, allowing this to work without the proper html markup isn't going to be possible as it would involve specific code to hook into each and every browser, or to provide a plug-in for every browser and there is no way you'll be able to do that easily or reliably.