In C in Windows, how do I open a website using the default browser? In Mac OS X, I do system("open http://url");
In C in Windows, how do I open a website using the default browser?
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In C in Windows, how do I open a website using the default browser? In Mac OS X, I do system("open http://url");
You have to use
ShellExecute().The C code to do that is as simple as:
This was documented by Microsoft Knowledge Base article KB 224816, but unfortunately the article has been retired and there’s no archived version of it.