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Basically, everyone navigates the World Wide Web using Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, FireFox, Safari, Opera and more. However, isn\u2019t it cool if you can create your very own web browser that you can customize to your own taste? Yes, you can create one in\u00a0Visual Basic 2013, and pretty easy too. In this lesson, you\u00a0shall learn how to create a simple web browser and get it running in a few minutes.<\/p>\n

First, start a new project in Visual Basic 2013 IDE and name it with any name you like. Here we use the name MyWebBrowser. Change the size of Form1 to 800,600 in its properties window. Next, you need to add an engine so that your web browser can connect to the Internet.<\/p>\n

The engine is the WebBrowser<\/strong> control, located on the Toolbox on the left side, set its size property to 600,400 and change its name to \u00a0MyWebBrowser\u00a0. Next, insert a text box and place it at the top of the WebBrowser control, this serves as the address bar where the user can enter the URL. Next, place a button beside the text box and change its text to GO and change its name to BtnGo. Finally, add a few more buttons and change their texts to Home, Back, Forward, Refresh and Search respectively.
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