You may know that the WPF WebBrowser is in fact the Win32 one disguised as a WPF control. It means that every drawbacks that we have seen before are present when you use it on a application.<\/p>\n

With WPF 4.5 you can now use it as if it is a standard control. All you have to do is to set the two properties we’ve seen before to the correct values.<\/p>\n

So let’s say that I want to display a WebBrowser with an opacity of 0.6 and that I want it to be scaled to the half of it size. Because I am evil, I also want to display a VisualBrus of it inside a Rectangle just next to it. The XAML meeting these requirements will then be :
\n[xml]<UniformGrid Columns="2" x:Name="grid">
\n <WebBrowser x:Name="_webBrowser" Source="http:\/\/www.jonathanAntoine.com"
\n Margin="5" Opacity="0.6">
\n <WebBrowser.RenderTransform>
\n <ScaleTransform ScaleX="0.5" ScaleY="0.5" \/>
\n <\/WebBrowser.RenderTransform>
\n <\/WebBrowser>
\n <Rectangle Margin="5">
\n <Rectangle.Fill>
\n <VisualBrush Visual="{Binding ElementName=_webBrowser}" \/>
\n <\/Rectangle.Fill>
\n <\/Rectangle>
\n<\/UniformGrid>
\n[\/xml]<\/p>\n

Then to make it works, I have to activate the redirecting and to set the composition mode of the WebBrowser internal HwndHost. The WPF team thought at this usage and you can find the same property on it. I do it in the Window constructor to be sure that no rendering has be done:
\n[csharp]public MainWindow()
\n{
\n InitializeComponent();<\/p>\n

_webBrowser.CompositionMode = System.Windows.Interop.CompositionMode.Full;
\n _webBrowser.IsRedirected = true;
\n}
\n[\/csharp]<\/p>\n