Question

I am trying to open a web browser via the following methods. However, when the browser opens the url / file path, the fragment piece gets mangled (from “#anchorName” to “%23anchorName”) which does not seem to get processed. So basically, the file opens but does not jump to the appropriate location in the document. Does anyone know how to open the file and have the fragment processed? Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.

an example path to open would be “c:\MyFile.Html#middle”

    // calls out to the registry to get the default browser
    private static string GetDefaultBrowserPath()
    {
       string key = @"HTTP\shell\open\command";
       using(RegistryKey registrykey = Registry.ClassesRoot.OpenSubKey(key, false))
       {
          return ((string)registrykey.GetValue(null, null)).Split('"')[1];
       }
    }

    // creates a process and passes the url as an argument to the process
    private static void Navigate(string url)
    {
       Process p = new Process();
       p.StartInfo.FileName = GetDefaultBrowserPath();
       p.StartInfo.Arguments = url;
       p.Start();
    }

Answer 1

Thanks to all that tried to help me with this issue. I have since found a solution that works. I have posted it below. All you need to do is call navigate with a local file path containing a fragment. Cheers!

    private static string GetDefaultBrowserPath()
    {
       string key = @"HTTP\shell\open\command";
       using(RegistryKey registrykey = Registry.ClassesRoot.OpenSubKey(key, false))
       {
          return ((string)registrykey.GetValue(null, null)).Split('"')[1];
       }
    }

    private static void Navigate(string url)
    {
       Process.Start(GetDefaultBrowserPath(), "file:///{0}".FormatWith(url));
    }