WP7 Emulator Browser does not display anything

Question

I am using a webbrowser control to display a webpage from within an application, but it just displays a white screen. I tried Internet Explorer and it didn’t display anything either. Any ideas to fix this problem.

Thank you very much in advance.

Answer 1

Windows Phone emulator requires a graphics card that supports DirectX 10 or higher with the WDDM 1.1 driver. I assume that you received an error message the first time you started the emulator, that your graphics adapter is not capable of all the functions that the emulator uses, and that this may affect XNA games, and sometimes Silverlight, like this one:

If your graphics adapter does not fully support DirectX 10 or does not have a WDDM 1.1 driver, you will only see a white screen instead of the displayed web page. It also affects all controls using MultiScaleImage, including the web browser control. As far as I know, at the moment there is no solution for this.

To check if the emulator of the required GPU emulation works, take a look at the arrow to open the list of applications, and if it points to the right or left. If it points to the left, then there is no graphics core (if it points to the right (as on the hardware phone itself), then the graphics processor is available, and rendering should work as expected.

See also this page in msdn.

Answer 2

You did not say if you are testing a local / personal page or a page on the Internet.

Also check out other pages on the Internet. You can view anything or just your own page.

If you do not see pages on a public network, you have a network problem.

If you can see public pages, but not locally, then you probably have another network problem. If you are on the device itself or the emulator is likely to greatly affect this.

Other things might be:

• you are trying to view the page that needs to be copied for display (if there is such a thing - a test with a very simple static page)
• the page uses useragent detecction and does not recognize the user agent and therefore does not serve anything
• The page has complex javascript that runs before the page is displayed, and javascript does not work, and so the page is never displayed.