Question

My visual studio extension generates a URL and I want to open it inside the Visual Studio as a new tab.

I could just use Process.Start() to open an external browser but this doesn’t look good.

I can open files from disk using this method:

void OnOpenBrowserWindow(string url)
  {
     if (url != null)
     {
        IVsCommandWindow service = (IVsCommandWindow) this.GetService(typeof (SVsCommandWindow));
        if (service != null)
        {
           string command = string.Format("File.OpenFile \"{0}\"", url);
           service.ExecuteCommand(command);
        }
     }
  }

but it doesn’t work for URLs

Answer 1

Easiest way is to use ItemOperations.Navigate() method.

var itemOps = Dte.ItemOperations;
itemOps.Navigate("http://bing.com");