Invoke IE from VC++

[Zulfi Khan]

How I can load a HTML file from a Visual C++ program? I want to load that file into Internet Explorer. I have Visual C++ 5 Enterprise Version for Win95, Internet Explorer 3.0.

Try using ShellExecute:

CString sFile="c:\\my.html";// your html file path goes here
HINSTANCE h = ShellExecute(NULL, "open", sFile, NULL, NULL, SW_SHOWNORMAL);

I think that will work as long as IE is registered as the app for HTML files.
If not it would find whichever browser the user has made default.

[Thomas Atwood]

simply add this command to your code:
ShellExecute(NULL,"open",URL,NULL,NULL,SW_SHOWNORMAL);

(where URL is a string containing the HTML URL or file name to load)

[Zulfi Khan]

Thanks. I hope it will work.
Zulfi

[Fabrice]

You should also "insert a IE ActiveX control" in a dialog box of your VC++ applications.
Then "Add a member variable" on this control.
And then call the following code:
m_WebBrowser.Navigate( m_strURL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL);
where m_WebBrowser is the member variable of the IE ActiveX object and m_strURL is your URL.

On most systems (at least mine) the running ShellExecute with the URL as a parameter activates the most recently launched instance of IE and opens the URL in it. To open a NEW instance of IE, do this:

ShellExecute(AfxGetApp()->GetMainWnd()->m_hWnd, NULL, "C:\\Program Files\\Plus!\\Microsoft Internet\\IEXPLORE.EXE", "http://www.codeguru.com", NULL, SW_SHOWNORMAL);

This runs IE and sends the URL as a parameter. I assume something similar would work with Netscape.


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