open browser

[Chris]

Hi There, I would like to open a Web Browser in my
SmartDevice Application.

This does not work:
System.Diagnostics.Process.Start
("http://192.168.0.1/BankSystem/UserManual/UserManualClien
t.htm");

Can anyone please tell me how to do it.

Thanks so much

Chris

 

[Chris Tacke, eMVP]

You can P/Invoke CreateProcess to start pocket IE with the URL as a
command-line parameter. Take a look at www.opennetcf.org/winapi.asp

-Chris

 

[Ed Kaim [MSFT]]

Here's the code I usually use:

[DllImport("coredll.Dll",SetLastError=true)]

private static extern int CreateProcess(string imageName, string cmdLine,
int lpProcessAttributes, int lpThreadAttributes, Int32 boolInheritHandles,
Int32 dwCreationFlags, int lpEnvironment, int lpszCurrentDir, int[] si,
ProcessInfo pi);

static public void LaunchURL(string URL)

{

int[] si = new int[128];

ProcessInfo pi = new ProcessInfo();

CreateProcess(@"\windows\iexplore.exe", URL, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, si, pi);

}

And then define this class in the same namespace:

class ProcessInfo

{

public IntPtr hProcess;

public IntPtr hThread;

public Int32 ProcessID;

public Int32 ThreadID;

}

It's not pretty, but it gets the job done in throw away apps. You may want
to add in exception handling for the p/invoke call.

 

[Geoff Schwab [MSFT]]

The following is a link to a quickstart tutorial that may help as well:

http://samples.gotdotnet.com/quickstart/CompactFramework/doc/waitforsingleobject.aspx

--
Geoff Schwab
Program Manager
Excell Data Corporation
http://msdn.com/mobility

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