Opening a URL in the default browser in a Windows 8 desktop application

Question

I am using System.Diagnostics.Process.Start from a desktop application to start the default browser to visit a link, as below. This is using C# with .NET 4.0 o

Answer 1

For WinRT apps only, it's simply

Launcher.LaunchUriAsync(new Uri("http://www.google.com"));

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