How to retrieve default browsers path in C#

Posted by Raffael on 04/28/2013 Posted in C#.Net Tagged C#, c# get default browser, c# get default browsers path, default browser, open url in c#, open url in default browser c#

csharp_standard_browser Below it will be about how to find the path to the default browser on Windows systems with help of C#. This makes sense, if you want to open a file using Process.Start () in the default browser.
Although one might assume that every Windows user has installed Internet Explorer and you should therefore simply use this to view files, but it does not necessarily increase the confidence of the user into the own application. So at least I, as a user, would be annoyed of my program, if this would always launch Internet Explorer instead of Firefox, which I have set as the default browser.
Now there are two ways to open the default browser in C #. Both have their advantages and disadvantages.
Option 1 – Process.Start() with an URL
The easiest […]