PRB: You Receive "Run-Time Error 5" When You Call the Navigate2 Method of the WebBrowser Control

In a Microsoft Visual Basic application, when you call the Navigate2 method of the WebBrowser control, and then you pass string variables as parameters, you may receive the following error:

To resolve this problem, use variant-type variables instead of strings.

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.

Steps to Reproduce the Behavior

1. Start Visual Basic.
2. Create a new Standard EXE project. By default, Form1 is created.
3. Add a WebBrowser control to Form1, and then add the following code to Form1:

   Sub Form_Load()
       Dim strUrl As String 
       ' To resolve the problem, change to Variant.
       ' For example: Dim strUrl As Variant
   
       strUrl = "http://www.microsoft.com/"
       WebBrowser1.Navigate2 strUrl
   End Sub
   					

For more information about how to use the WebBrowser control, visit the following Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) Web site:For more information about how to develop Web-based solutions for Microsoft Internet Explorer, visit the following MSDN Web sites: