Dani AM
Dani AM

Reputation: 67

How can you open windows program by pressing a button on web page

How can you open windows program by pressing a button on web page

I develop web app in asp.net, and I want to do some action in windows when press button on

the web page,

For example: when you press Messenger button in http://www.msn.com/?ocid=hmlogout

windows live messenger will open in your computer,

Is there a certain technique to do that ?

thanks for any suggestion.

Dani.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 465

Answers (2)

Manrico Corazzi
Manrico Corazzi

Reputation: 11371

You can either:

  1. open applications associated with a protocol (as citronas said)
  2. use a trusted applet/activex

Upvotes: 1

citronas
citronas

Reputation: 19365

This will not work unless you try to upen a URI with an associated protocol on the client.

torrent:// or something like this.

Upvotes: 2

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