Gapotchenko.FX.Diagnostics.WebBrowser

Gapotchenko.FX.Diagnostics.WebBrowser

It turns out that launching a web browser is a black voodoo art that should be grasped on every particular version of an operating system.

.NET developers used to do this trick back in the day:

using System.Diagnostics;

Process.Start("https://example.com/");

Looks easy enough? It is, but there is a catch (or lots of them):

• Sometimes web browser is started while the Process.Start(…) method throws an exception on some machines
• Sometimes it starts not the default web browser but Internet Explorer or Edge. Go figure. Spotted on more than several occasions on different machines at random points of time
• It does nothing on some machines
• It fails on .NET Core

The Solution

Gapotchenko.FX.Diagnostics.WebBrowser module provides WebBrowser class with a single Launch method.

A pure joy to use that comes without aforementioned drawbacks of the Process.Start(…) method:

using Gapotchenko.FX.Diagnostics;

WebBrowser.Launch("https://example.com/");

Usage

Gapotchenko.FX.Diagnostics.WebBrowser module is available as a NuGet package:

PM> Install-Package Gapotchenko.FX.Diagnostics.WebBrowser

Other Modules

Let's continue with a look at some other modules provided by Gapotchenko.FX:

• Gapotchenko.FX
• Gapotchenko.FX.AppModel.Information
• Gapotchenko.FX.Collections
• Gapotchenko.FX.Console
• Gapotchenko.FX.Diagnostics
  • Gapotchenko.FX.Diagnostics.CommandLine
  • Gapotchenko.FX.Diagnostics.Process
  • ➴ Gapotchenko.FX.Diagnostics.WebBrowser
• Gapotchenko.FX.IO
• Gapotchenko.FX.Linq
• Gapotchenko.FX.Math
• Gapotchenko.FX.Memory
• Gapotchenko.FX.Text
• Gapotchenko.FX.Threading

Or look at the full list of modules.