Opening website with Visual Basic

[_Xternal34]

Ok.. I'm still new to VB, so yeah. I need the code for opening a URL without shelling to a specific browser. Like, the most I have right now... is shelling to FireFox, and opening URL from there.

I want it to open default browser, and that yeah. :] plz help.

[oracleguy]

You should be able to do so by using the ShellExecute API call.

This goes in the form declerations:
'declare constants:
Private Const SW_SHOWNORMAL = 1

'declare API:
Private Declare Function ShellExecute Lib "shell32.dll" Alias _
"ShellExecuteA" (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal lpOperation As String, _
ByVal lpFile As String, ByVal lpParameters As String, ByVal lpDirectory As _
String, ByVal nShowCmd As Long) As Long

And then to open the URL:

ShellExecute(Me.hwnd, vbNullString, "http://www.codingforums.com", vbNullString, _
"", SW_SHOWNORMAL)

[_Xternal34]

With the opening URL code, :\ I get a syntax error. :(

[oracleguy]

Lose the parentheses around the function parameters.

ShellExecute Me.hwnd, vbNullString, "http://www.codingforums.com", vbNullString, _
"", SW_SHOWNORMAL