making an application load and do a certain command from a web browser link

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Ok, I have an application and I want it to load up from a web browser. For example, i would do something like "loadup:BOO!!!" in the link, and the application would pop up and have the word "BOO!!!" in the textobox. Is this possible, and I want to do this in visual basic.net. Thanks in advanced...

[coldfusion244]

Ok' date=' I have an application and I want it to load up from a web browser. For example, i would do something like "loadup:BOO!!!" in the link, and the application would pop up and have the word "BOO!!!" in the textobox. Is this possible, and I want to do this in visual basic.net. Thanks in advanced...[/quote']

 

 

What you are looking for is the argument list. When your program starts you will need to grab the argument list and parse it, then write the code to make it do what you want.

[decrypt]

i want something like this:

 

http://loadmyprogram:andwritethistextinthetextbox

 

would I have to create an add-on for the webbrowser (i'm using firefox)? How would the webbrowser know which application to load?

 

Another example of this is the AIM thing

[Derek Stone]

You would need to install a custom protocol handler into the registry.

 

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\PROTOCOLS\Handler\