Binding the WPF WebBrowser Source Property

In an MVVM application I am currently creating, I had the need to embed the WPF WebBrowser control and quickly discovered that the Source Property is not a dependancy object, and so cannot be bound.

I quickly search around on StackOverflow.com and found a neat solution in c#;

http://stackoverflow.com/a/265648/1305169

The VB Version of which is;

   1: Namespace Helpers

   2:  

   3:     ''' <summary>

   4:     ''' Allows for the Source Property of the WebBrowser to be Bindable to the DataContext

   5:     ''' </summary>

   6:     ''' <remarks></remarks>

   7:     Public Class WebBrowserUtility

   8:         Private Sub New()

   9:         End Sub

  10:         Public Shared ReadOnly BindableSourceProperty As DependencyProperty = DependencyProperty.RegisterAttached("BindableSource", GetType(String), GetType(WebBrowserUtility), New UIPropertyMetadata(Nothing, AddressOf BindableSourcePropertyChanged))

  11:  

  12:         Public Shared Function GetBindableSource(obj As DependencyObject) As String

  13:             Return DirectCast(obj.GetValue(BindableSourceProperty), String)

  14:         End Function

  15:  

  16:         Public Shared Sub SetBindableSource(obj As DependencyObject, value As String)

  17:             obj.SetValue(BindableSourceProperty, value)

  18:         End Sub

  19:  

  20:         Public Shared Sub BindableSourcePropertyChanged(o As DependencyObject, e As DependencyPropertyChangedEventArgs)

  21:             Dim browser As WebBrowser = TryCast(o, WebBrowser)

  22:             If browser IsNot Nothing Then

  23:                 Dim uri As String = TryCast(e.NewValue, String)

  24:                 browser.Source = If(uri IsNot Nothing, New Uri(uri), Nothing)

  25:             End If

  26:         End Sub

  27:     End Class

  28:  

  29: End Namespace

You then use your new Bindable Property in the XAML as;

<Window

    xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"

    xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"

    xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008" xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006" mc:Ignorable="d"

    xmlns:Helpers="clr-namespace:FrontEnd.Helpers"

    x:Class="frmKiosk"

    x:Name="Window"

    Width="1920" Height="1080" WindowStyle="None" WindowStartupLocation="CenterScreen" WindowState="Maximized" Background="#FF1327D0" Cursor="None">

    <WebBrowser x:Name="wbMain" Helpers:WebBrowserUtility.BindableSource="{Binding KioskWebAddress}" VerticalAlignment="Stretch" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" />

</Window>

Then simply creating a Property in the DataContext, and setting the source like;

KioskWebAddress = "c:/HTML/index.html"