WebBrowser control not opens URLs in native browser window when IE11 is disabled/uninstalled-CodePudding

I'm using a Windows Form application developed in .NET Framework 2.0. I can't upgrade the framework as 2.0 is the requirement. The application is used to host URL in WebBrowser control of a web application developed in .NET 4.5.2 and working fine. The web application loads HTML content which also contains the Hyperlinks. Now I am facing a the scenario where the IE11 is not available or it's disabled/uninstalled. When the windows form application runs and it loads the HTML content through the website and I try to click one of the hyperlink instead of opening the link in any other available browser (Chrome, Edge) it does nothing. Can you please give me a workaround to handle this scenario? I want the URL should be opened in any other available browser window.

Thanks.

CodePudding user response：

You can first get the link href of the url when click the link, then use Process.Start() to launch Edge/Chrome to navigate to the link.

The sample code is like below, it launches Edge (msedge.exe) to open the links:

private void webBrowser1_DocumentCompleted(object sender, WebBrowserDocumentCompletedEventArgs e)
{
    var linkElements = webBrowser1.Document.GetElementsByTagName("a");
    foreach (HtmlElement link in linkElements)
    {
        link.Click  = (s, args) =>
        {
            int iStartPos = link.OuterHtml.IndexOf("window.open('")   ("window.open('").Length;
            int iEndPos = link.OuterHtml.IndexOf("')", iStartPos);
            String url = link.OuterHtml.Substring(iStartPos, iEndPos - iStartPos);
            Process.Start("msedge.exe", url);
        };
    }
}