[RESOLVED] Help with opening Link

[daimous]

hi guys help please. Currently, I have this code

            System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(EventAttachmentLink);

to open a link, but it opens the link in one of my opened Internet Browser. My question is, is it posible to open a particular link in a new Internet Browser Window? Thanks in advance!

[jmcilhinney]

That is a function of the browser itself. The browser will normally have an option to change that default behaviour. If you want to override the default behaviour without adjusting the browser settings then you need to specify the browser itself as the file name and the URL as an argument, e.g.

Process.Start("iexplore", EventAttachmentLink);

The problem with that is that you won't be using the default browser in many cases. I believe that Windows stores information about browsers and which one is the default in the registry, so you could get the correct path from there.

I'm fairly sure that Shaggy Hiker or kleinma tackled this issue some time ago and put something in the Codebank too. I don't remember the specifics though. It was probably the VB.NET Codebank but conversion would be simple.

[daimous]

OK..I'll give it a try..Thanks again JM.

[daimous]

Ok..I come up with the code below.

            //Get path of the default internet explorer
            string defaultBrowser = null;
            //HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\https\shell\open\command is the Registry path where you can get the default Internet Explorer            
            RegistryKey regKey = Registry.ClassesRoot.OpenSubKey(@"HTTP\shell\open\command");
            if (regKey != null)
            {
                //The value name in my registry is blank ("") or (default)
                //but it contains value "C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe" -nohome
                defaultBrowser = (string)regKey.GetValue("");

                //Since I only need the path (C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe)
                //I will remove any charcater before the first '"' 
                defaultBrowser = defaultBrowser.Remove(0, defaultBrowser.IndexOf("\"") + 1);

                //And remove any character after the second '"'
                defaultBrowser = defaultBrowser.Remove(defaultBrowser.IndexOf("\""));

                //Remove any white space character
                defaultBrowser.Trim();
            }

//Open Link
            System.Diagnostics.Process pOpenLink = new System.Diagnostics.Process();
            pOpenLink.StartInfo.CreateNoWindow = true;
            pOpenLink.StartInfo.FileName = defaultBrowser;
            pOpenLink.StartInfo.Arguments = EventAttachmentLink;
            pOpenLink.Start();

Thanks a lot JM!