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2vision2
2vision2

Reputation: 5023

invoke iexplore.exe in already launched instance using ShellExecuteEx

I used ShellExecuteEx to call iexplore.exe, Whenever I start the application a new instance of internet explorer is created irrespective of, internet explorer already opened or not.

I want to change this, if already an instance of the Internet explorer is there, I need to open a new tab in that instance with the address I am passing to the ShExecInfo.lpParameters, thus without creating a new window. Is there a way to do this? Please advice..

UPADATE: In the below answer I have a problem, when I set the lpFile parameter as "iexplore.exe" and lpParameters as "www.google.com", two windows get opened. If I ignore lpfile parameter, then the below code opens default browsers in some machine. I want only internet explorer to get opened. please help..

int WINAPI WinMain ( HINSTANCE hInstance, HINSTANCE hPrevInstance, LPSTR lpCmdLine, int nCmdShow ) { 


 ShellExecute(0,L"open",L"iexplore.exe", L"http://www.google.com",0,SW_SHOWDEFAULT );       


 ShellExecute(0,L"open", L"iexplore.exe", L"http://www.yahoo.com",0,SW_SHOWDEFAULT );        

 return 0;

}

Upvotes: 4

Views: 768

Answers (1)

perilbrain
perilbrain

Reputation: 8197

It works with ShellExecute.

#include <stdio.h>
#include <tchar.h>
#include <Windows.h>


int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[])
{
    ShellExecute(0,L"open",L"http://www.google.com",0,0,SW_SHOWDEFAULT );   
    ShellExecute(0,L"open",L"http://www.yahoo.com",0,0,SW_SHOWDEFAULT );    
    return 0;
}

Upvotes: 7

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