Opening a URL in an external Browser?

[Anil Gupte/iCinema.com]

Sorry reposting for clarity...

Which one is better? This:

System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(URL)

or this?

Dim psi As New ProcessStartInfo()
psi.UseShellExecute = True
psi.FileName = URL
Process.Start(psi)

And why?

Regards,

 

[kimiraikkonen]

Sorry reposting for clarity...

Which one is better? This:

System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(URL)

or this?

Dim psi As New ProcessStartInfo()
psi.UseShellExecute = True
psi.FileName = URL
Process.Start(psi)

And why?

Regards,

There's also another option:

Shell("explorer.exe http://www.google.com")

' Also

BTW, when you use "ProcessStartInfo" class, you're allowed to define
how your process will be launched. See members of that class using
IntelliSense.

Hope this helps,

Onur Güzel

 

[Anil Gupte/iCinema.com]

Oh sure, confuse me even more...

But which one is better?

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Sorry reposting for clarity...

Which one is better? This:

System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(URL)

or this?

Dim psi As New ProcessStartInfo()
psi.UseShellExecute = True
psi.FileName = URL
Process.Start(psi)

And why?

Regards,

There's also another option:

Shell("explorer.exe http://www.google.com")

' Also

BTW, when you use "ProcessStartInfo" class, you're allowed to define
how your process will be launched. See members of that class using
IntelliSense.

Hope this helps,

Onur Güzel

 

[Martin H.]

Oh sure, confuse me even more...

But which one is better?

Who cares as long as it works?

Best regards,

Martin

 

[\(O\)enone]

There's also another option:
Shell("explorer.exe http://www.google.com")

That may well work, but I'd strongly advise against it because it always
opens using Internet Explorer. The other options presented by the OP will
observe the user's default browser settings, thereby not annoying the hell
out of them.

 

[Martin H.]

That may well work, but I'd strongly advise against it because it always
opens using Internet Explorer. The other options presented by the OP will
observe the user's default browser settings, thereby not annoying the hell
out of them.

The alternative would be:

Shell("cmd /C start http://www.google.com")

'Opens the standard browser.

Best regards,

Martin