For debugging purposes it’d be nice if I could make my error page display clickable file names in exception stack traces that would open them up in my favorite editor. However this would require me to execute a full command line – a simple link to a file will not do. Can this be done?
The solution can be IE-only and it can use techniques that require full trust (I don’t expect it to be otherwise anyway). People are only going to use this on localhost, I will in fact disable this functionality when viewing the page remotely.
You can add a new protocol to Windows as outlined here .
This is especially nice because it works across browsers, and doesn’t require any browser specific settings.
Just be careful with it – adding a new protocol handler opens potential, although very remote, vulnerabilities. When setting this up, never let the incoming URL be somehow a parameter to a generic command interpreter (like
cmd). Always link it to an existing application that is not able to do anything destructive, not even through command line switches.