Quote Originally Posted by dbasnett View Post
I ended up just creating my own browser.

I am done with this bs. What a joke! I am not trying to calculate the orbits of the planets. Surely someone at Microsoft would have thought of a default webbrowser object.

something like
Code:
dim foo as defBrowser

foo.OpenNewTab=True

foo.url = "www.apple.com"

foo.go or .start , etc.
And the default web browser would magically appear with your url, without all this mickey mouse stuff.
Surely as a programmer you realise how impossible that is. There is no standard set of commands that every web browser has to implement (e.g to open a new tab) so why on earth would microsoft include something in the .NET framework that would be as unreliable as a 'default web browser' class. If they included such a thing then people would just complain that it didnt work with browser X because basically the only browser MS can be sure they can work with is IE - hence the WebBrowser control that essentially is IE.
To me the best idea would be to have the operating system decide what browser to launch if it realises someone is trying to launch a URL, based on the default browser that the user has set... oh wait, that is what already happens.