Open a URL from Windows Forms
Here is the best of both worlds:
Dim sInfo As New ProcessStartInfo("http://www.mysite.com")
Try
Process.Start(sInfo)
Catch ex As Exception
Process.Start("iexplore.exe", sInfo.FileName)
End Try
I found that the answer provided by Blorgbeard will fail when a desktop application is run on a Windows 8 device. To Camillo's point, you should attempt to open this with the user's default browser application, but if the browswer application is not assigned, an unhandled exception will be thrown.
I am posting this as the answer since it handles the exception while still attempting to open the link in the default browser.
For those getting a "Win32Exception: The System cannot find the file specified"
This should do the work:
ProcessStartInfo psInfo = new ProcessStartInfo
{
FileName = "https://www.google.com",
UseShellExecute = true
};
Process.Start(psInfo);
UseShellExecute is descriped further here
For me the issue was due to the .NET runtime as descriped here
using System.Diagnostics;
Process.Start("http://www.google.com/");
This approach has worked for me, but I could be missing something important.
This article will walk you through it.
Short answer:
ProcessStartInfo sInfo = new ProcessStartInfo("http://mysite.com/");
Process.Start(sInfo);