Joakim, Thanks for that tip! And since the KB specifically instructs to use that key to retrieve the default browser I suppose I'd better use it.
The only thing that annoys me here is that my entry has the following value in that key: "C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe" -nohome which, if you send it to System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(), throws an exception because it doesn't understand the parameter (the string should probably contain only the location of an executable and nothing more, it probably doesn't parse anything like cmd does) so I guess I'll have to do some trimming/regexping :( And concatenating this value and the link and sending everything to cmd.exe is probably considered dirty as well :) -Jeroen -----Original Message----- From: Unmoderated discussion of advanced .NET topics. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joakim Karlsson Sent: donderdag 17 juni 2004 13:54 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] launching an html page with an anchor Jeroen, Actually you should check "HKCR\http\shell\open\command". Checking html or htmlfile might give you a html editor instead. Check out the following KB article: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;283225%22 /Joakim ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeroen van den Bos (DT)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2004 7:36 AM Subject: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] launching an html page with an anchor Hi all, I'm trying have my application launch an html page with a certain anchor as a parameter. I want to launch the default webbrowser, so just for an html page I would do (c#): System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(@"c:\mypage.html"); Unfortunately this doesn't work if I want to launch c:\mypage.html#someanchor. I've tried figuring out where to find an executable path to the system's default browser, but the only thing I could find was a registry reference (HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\htmlfile\shell\open\command), but I'm not entirely sure if I want to/can depend on that information being available and appropriate on every user's machine. Thanks in advance for any ideas! -Jeroen =================================== This list is hosted by DevelopMentor(r) http://www.develop.com Some .NET courses you may be interested in: NEW! Guerrilla ASP.NET, 17 May 2004, in Los Angeles http://www.develop.com/courses/gaspdotnetls View archives and manage your subscription(s) at http://discuss.develop.com =================================== This list is hosted by DevelopMentor(r) http://www.develop.com Some .NET courses you may be interested in: NEW! Guerrilla ASP.NET, 17 May 2004, in Los Angeles http://www.develop.com/courses/gaspdotnetls View archives and manage your subscription(s) at http://discuss.develop.com =================================== This list is hosted by DevelopMentorŪ http://www.develop.com Some .NET courses you may be interested in: NEW! Guerrilla ASP.NET, 17 May 2004, in Los Angeles http://www.develop.com/courses/gaspdotnetls View archives and manage your subscription(s) at http://discuss.develop.com
