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I am writing a vb6 project that needs to have a user move to a web browser. Is there any way to start off IE but send it to a predetermined page rather than the default home page? I would rather use IE than the VB web browser form as the users will not be experienced and so need the familiar buttons / interface available to them.
Will i still use the command
“Shell (“C:Program FilesInternet ExplorerIEXPLORE.EXE”), vbMaximizedFocus” or is there a better way?

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I need to figure this out, too. My first instinct is to rely on Windows to deal with the application and Shell it the file name. But then you probably don’t have much control over window.

When I get back to this project, I’m going to try just putting them together – program name space file name – to see what happens.

There’s a KB article for IE4 that lists command-line switches, but no examples of how to combine them with the file name.

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Hi,
Shell (“C:Program FilesInternet ExplorerIEXPLORE.EXE http://www.yahoo.com”), vbMaximizedFocus
works from VBA (in Excel2k) so I guess it would work from VB6.
Hope that helps.

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This works great , thanks. My only problem now is how to negotiate the frames on the web page!

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I think you’d have more control over IE if you automate it just like Word or Excel.

See

http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/c-frame…application.asp

Mike

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