Open a URL from Windows Forms

Question

I\'m trying to provide a link to my company\'s website from a Windows Form. I want to be well behaved and launch using the user\'s preferred browser.

What is the be

Answer 1

Here is the best of both worlds:

Dim sInfo As New ProcessStartInfo("http://www.mysite.com")

Try
     Process.Start(sInfo)
Catch ex As Exception
     Process.Start("iexplore.exe", sInfo.FileName)
End Try

I found that the answer provided by Blorgbeard will fail when a desktop application is run on a Windows 8 device. To Camillo's point, you should attempt to open this with the user's default browser application, but if the browswer application is not assigned, an unhandled exception will be thrown.

I am posting this as the answer since it handles the exception while still attempting to open the link in the default browser.