Jumping to URLs

[MartinLiss]

I know this is probably simple, but I've just never done it. I've got a database that contains a list of URLs. What control do I use in VB to display them so that my user can jump to the URL by double-clicking it?

[Aaron Young]

You can use any control to display the URLs, the question is how do you launch the Browser and send it to that URL, in which case you can use the ShellExecute API, ie.

Private Declare Function ShellExecute Lib "shell32.dll" Alias "ShellExecuteA" (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal lpOperation As String, ByVal lpFile As String, ByVal lpParameters As String, ByVal lpDirectory As String, ByVal nShowCmd As Long) As Long

ShellExecute 0&, "OPEN", sURL, "", "", 1

If you want something more like the Hyperlinks on a webpage, feel free to checkout the URL control I've put together, it's Freeware and it offers some customizable features, you just plop it on your form, like a label.