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Anthony Smyth
Anthony Smyth

Reputation: 305

C# Arguments for a specific process, open browser with url

I am writing an application that is supposed to open a certain process on the click of a button. However, the user has the ability to add new buttons. I'm using the following code for the action that occurs that starts the process on button click:

        private void StartProcess(string path)
    {
        ProcessStartInfo StartInformation = new ProcessStartInfo();

        StartInformation.FileName = path;

        Process process = Process.Start(StartInformation);

        process.EnableRaisingEvents = true;
    }
    private void ClickFunc(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
    {
        if (File.Exists(ProgramPath))
        {
            StartProcess(ProgramPath);
        }
        else
        {
            MessageBox.Show("Specified path does not exist, please try again.", "Bad File Path Error", MessageBoxButton.OK);
        }
    }

What I'm trying to accomplish is, when the user creates a button for a webpage, it opens the browser, then the webpage. Any ideas?

Thank you in advance!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3588

Answers (1)

Felipe Oriani
Felipe Oriani

Reputation: 38638

To start a process to open the browser with a specific url you can try this:

string url = "http://www.stackoverflow.com";

var process = System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(url);

But sometimes if you have problems with the path of your browser, it cannot work properly. The function bellow gives you the path of the browser in the machine.

public static string GetDefaultBrowserPath()
{
    string urlAssociation = @"Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Associations\UrlAssociations\http";
    string browserPathKey = @"$BROWSER$\shell\open\command";

    RegistryKey userChoiceKey = null;
    string browserPath = “”;

    try
    {
        //Read default browser path from userChoiceLKey
        userChoiceKey = Registry.CurrentUser.OpenSubKey(urlAssociation + @"\UserChoice", false);

        //If user choice was not found, try machine default
        if (userChoiceKey == null)
        {
            //Read default browser path from Win XP registry key
            var browserKey = Registry.ClassesRoot.OpenSubKey(@"HTTP\shell\open\command", false);

            //If browser path wasn’t found, try Win Vista (and newer) registry key
            if (browserKey == null)
            {
                browserKey =
                Registry.CurrentUser.OpenSubKey(
                urlAssociation, false);
            }
            var path = CleanifyBrowserPath(browserKey.GetValue(null) as string);
            browserKey.Close();
            return path;
        }
        else
        {
            // user defined browser choice was found
            string progId = (userChoiceKey.GetValue("ProgId").ToString());
            userChoiceKey.Close();

            // now look up the path of the executable
            string concreteBrowserKey = browserPathKey.Replace(“$BROWSER$”, progId);
            var kp = Registry.ClassesRoot.OpenSubKey(concreteBrowserKey, false);
            browserPath = CleanifyBrowserPath(kp.GetValue(null) as string);
            kp.Close();
            return browserPath;
        }
    }
    catch(Exception ex)
    {
        return "";  
    }
}

And you can use the path of the browser and the url of website, for sample:

string url = "http://www.stackoverflow.com";

var process = System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(GetDefaultBrowserPath(), url);

In the url string you can pass the webpage link. It will open the browser with the url.

See more:

http://www.seirer.net/blog/2014/6/10/solved-how-to-open-a-url-in-the-default-browser-in-csharp

Upvotes: 2

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