Navigate and search in the same textbox

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net web browser and im in sort of trouble. I want to let user write url or search query in same textbox , something like its ie. in google chrome. I have an idea but im open to others too

Basically my solve is to check that text has something like domain i mean it has "." and 3 or 2 any letters.

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score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:50

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you can use regex to check if the inputted string is a url (see this question).

see here for a tutorial on regex in VB.Net

If not a url, do your typical search :)

edited May 23 '17 at 11:50

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answered Feb 23 '16 at 21:15

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 24 '16 at 18:29

ok, i tried to use some regex but there is one thing. i used this regex:

"^http://[a-zA-Z0-9-.]+.[a-zA-Z]{2,3}(/\S*)?$"

and there is my code

Dim r As Regex = New Regex("^http\://[a-zA-Z0-9\-\.]+\.[a-zA-Z]{2,3}(/\S*)?$")
    Dim match As Match = r.Match(TextBox1.Text.ToString, RegexOptions.IgnoreCase)
    If GetAsyncKeyState(13) Then
        If match.Success Then
            navigate(TextBox1.Text, WebControl1)
        Else
            navigate("http://www.google.com/search?q=" + TextBox1.Text, WebControl1)
        End If
    End If

but the issue is that no matter what i put to textbox1 it actually searchs it like in else statement

Navigate and search in the same textbox

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