What about pointing to a HTML page that redirects to the intended URL+Anchor? It's been a while since I had to mess with HTML so not sure if the server does this or if any ole html will do.
Regards, J. Vince Pacella / OOCL Chicago Tel - 773-399-6218 Fax - 773-867-5050 Cargo Tracking Online at: www.cargosmart.com and www.oocl.com -----Original Message----- From: Unmoderated discussion of advanced .NET topics. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Frans Bouma Sent: Friday, June 18, 2004 1:28 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] launching an html page with an anchor > I don't know if this helps (probably not, I crash and burn on > this list when I say anything, hah).. But maybe passing the > string as a variable? > This is how I do what I do: > string url = > @"http://xxx/QUERYB/blstatusquery/msgTracking4bl2.asp?BLNum="; > + BLNumber; System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(url); I think that will not work either, as the string parser in Process.Start() simply stops when it runs into a '#', I think. The sad thing is that there is no default special character defined for '#', like there is for some special characters like '&'. Also the ascii equivalent '%23' doesn't work in the url. FB > > Regards, > J. Vince Pacella / OOCL Chicago > Tel - 773-399-6218 Fax - 773-867-5050 > > Cargo Tracking Online at: > www.cargosmart.com and www.oocl.com > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Unmoderated discussion of advanced .NET topics. > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeroen van > den Bos (DT) > Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2004 9:57 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] launching an html page with an anchor > > > Hi Chad, > > Actually, if I change it to file://c:\mypage.html#anchorname > it just opens IE pointing to file://c:\mypage.html with the > anchor suddenly gone! > > -Jeroen > > -----Original Message----- > From: Unmoderated discussion of advanced .NET topics. > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chad M. > Gross > Sent: donderdag 17 juni 2004 16:10 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] launching an html page with an anchor > > Jeroen, > > Based on your sample code snipit, > System.Diagnostics.Process.Start (@"c:\mypage.html");, just > remeber that good old IE will take > "C:\mypage.html#anchorName" in the > Process.StartInfo.Arguments property. > But if your lauching those other browsers like Mozilla you > cannot. If you are attemping to launch a local file you > should use the file:// sytax, > "file://C:/mypage.html#anchorName". Also, your original > problem would have been solved had you coded, > System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(@"file://c:/mypage.html#ancho > rName");. > But like Joakim indicated, you don't want to shell to the > file directly because you could get an HTML editor. > > Chad > > On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 15:09:46 +0200, Jeroen van den Bos (DT) > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Thanks for the link, saves me some time :) > > > >-Jeroen > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: Unmoderated discussion of advanced .NET topics. > >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joakim > >Karlsson > >Sent: donderdag 17 juni 2004 14:44 > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] launching an html page with an anchor > > > >Yeah, you must do some trimming. The command line stored in the > registry > >might contain any kind of parameters (and even 8.3 path names). > > > >This article contains an example: > >http://ryanfarley.com/blog/archive/2004/05/16/649.aspx > > > >/Joakim > > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "Jeroen van den Bos (DT)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2004 2:35 PM > >Subject: Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] launching an html page with an anchor > > > > > >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. 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