If all I'm trying to do is display the contents of some web page in a WPF app, what are the pro's and cons of using the WebBrowser control versus the Frame control? As I understand it Frame wraps WebBrowser anyway.
I have no need to display WPF in my control so that feature of Frame doesn't concern me.
Thanks in advance.
If you're just wanting to display a webpage, I would use the WebBrowser control. Even if it's only for the reason that the naming makes more sense and is easier to understand at a glance what the "frame" is for.
The 'Frame' can display WPF content as children, and spin-up the IE ActiveX control only when 'web' content is displayed. (Start by displaying your internal application help content or data content, then have a link to web page for additional details.) I think if you're considering XAML static content(1) augmented by web content then Frame is the best choice.
1 - see FlowDocument