Howto OpenBrowser - Mono

Howto OpenBrowser - Mono:

Howto OpenBrowser

Any versions of Mono available since 2007 will support opening a url by using Process.Start with a url, for example:

Process.Start ("http://www.google.com");

Older versions of Mono did not support this and have to manually do this. Here is how it used to be done in the past. This copes with a few different operating systems in *older* versions of Mono:

using System; using System.Diagnostics;   public static bool OpenLink(string address) {     try {         int plat = (int) Environment.OSVersion.Platform;         if ((plat != 4) && (plat != 128)) {             // Use Microsoft's way of opening sites             Process.Start(address);         } else {             // We're on Unix, try gnome-open (used by GNOME), then open             // (used my MacOS), then Firefox or Konqueror browsers (our last             // hope).             string cmdline = String.Format("gnome-open {0} || open {0} || "+                 "firefox {0} || mozilla-firefox {0} || konqueror {0}", address);             Process proc = Process.Start (cmdline);               // Sleep some time to wait for the shell to return in case of error             System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(250);               // If the exit code is zero or the process is still running then             // appearently we have been successful.             return (!proc.HasExited || proc.ExitCode == 0);         }     } catch (Exception e) {         // We don't want any surprises         return false;     } }

If your program is meant to be run only under GNOME, you have a better and easier solution, however. It is suficient to call Gnome.Url::Show, as shown below:

using Gnome; ... public void OpenMyProgramWebsite() {     Url.Show("http://websiteofmyproject/"); }