How to open in default browser in C

Question

I am designing a small C  application and there is a web browser in it  I currently have all of my defaults on my computer say google chrome is my default browser  yet when I click a link in my application to open in a new window  it opens internet explorer  Is there any way to make these links open in the default browser instead  Or is there something wrong on my computer   My problem is that I have a webbrowser in the application  so say you go to google and type in  stack overflow  and right click the first link and click  Open in new window  it opens in IE instead of Chrome  Is this something I have coded improperly  or is there a setting not correct on my computer     EDIT     This is really annoying  I am already aware that the browser is IE  but I had it working fine before  When I clicked a link it opened in chrome  I was using sharp develop to make the application at that time because I could not get c  express to start up  I did a fresh windows install and since I wasn t too far along in my application  I decided to start over  and now I am having this problem  That is why I am not sure if it is my computer or not  Why would IE start up the whole browser when a link is clicked rather than simply opening the new link in the default browser

User · Answer

For those finding this question in dotnet core. I found a solution here

Code:

private void OpenUrl(string url)
{
    try
    {
        Process.Start(url);
    }
    catch
    {
        // hack because of this: https://github.com/dotnet/corefx/issues/10361
        if (RuntimeInformation.IsOSPlatform(OSPlatform.Windows))
        {
            url = url.Replace("&", "^&");
            Process.Start(new ProcessStartInfo("cmd", $"/c start {url}") { CreateNoWindow = true });
        }
        else if (RuntimeInformation.IsOSPlatform(OSPlatform.Linux))
        {
            Process.Start("xdg-open", url);
        }
        else if (RuntimeInformation.IsOSPlatform(OSPlatform.OSX))
        {
            Process.Start("open", url);
        }
        else
        {
            throw;
        }
    }
}

User · Answer

This opened the default for me   System Diagnostics Process Start e LinkText ToString

User · Answer

Take a look at the GeckoFX control      GeckoFX is an open-source component   which makes it easy to embed Mozilla   Gecko  Firefox  into any  NET Windows   Forms application  Written in clean    fully commented C   GeckoFX is the   perfect replacement for the default   Internet Explorer-based WebBrowser   control

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After researching a lot I feel most of the given answer will not work with dotnet core   1 System Diagnostics Process Start  http   google com    -- Will not work with dotnet core  2 It will work but it will block the new window opening in case default browser is chrome   myProcess StartInfo UseShellExecute   true       myProcess StartInfo FileName    http   some domain tld bla       myProcess Start      Below is the simplest and will work in all the scenarios   Process Start  explorer   url

User · Answer

You can just write   System Diagnostics Process Start  http   google com      EDIT  The WebBrowser control is an embedded copy of IE  Therefore  any links inside of it will open in IE   To change this behavior  you can handle the Navigating event

User · Answer

public static void GoToSite string url         System Diagnostics Process Start url       that should solve your problem

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My default browser is Google Chrome and the accepted answer is giving the following error   The system cannot find the file specified   I solved the problem and managed to open an URL with the default browser by using this code  System Diagnostics Process Start  quot explorer exe quot    quot http   google com quot

User · Answer

Try this   old school way     public static void openit string x                System Diagnostics Process Start  cmd     C start          x           using       openit  www google com

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update the registry with current version of explorer    Software Microsoft Internet Explorer Main FeatureControl FEATURE BROWSER EMULATION   public enum BrowserEmulationVersion       Default   0      Version7   7000      Version8   8000      Version8Standards   8888      Version9   9000      Version9Standards   9999      Version10   10000      Version10Standards   10001      Version11   11000      Version11Edge   11001    key SetValue programName   int browserEmulationVersion  RegistryValueKind DWord

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I m using this in  NET 5  on Windows  with Windows Forms  It works even with other default browsers  such as Firefox   Process Start new ProcessStartInfo   FileName   url  UseShellExecute   true      Based on this and this

User · Answer

Open dynamically  string addres   Print     Id     htm              System Diagnostics Process Start Path Combine Environment CurrentDirectory  addres

User · Answer

dotnet core throws an error if we use Process Start URL   The following code will work in dotnet core  You can add any browser instead of Chrome   var processes   Process GetProcessesByName  Chrome    var path    processes FirstOrDefault    MainModule  FileName  Process Start path   url

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In UWP   await Launcher LaunchUriAsync new Uri  http   google com

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Did you try Processas mentioned here  http   msdn microsoft com de-de library system diagnostics process aspx   You could use  Process myProcess   new Process     try          true is the default  but it is important not to set it to false     myProcess StartInfo UseShellExecute   true       myProcess StartInfo FileName    http   some domain tld bla       myProcess Start      catch  Exception e        Console WriteLine e Message

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