Launch web page from my application

Question

Ok, this probably has a really simple answer, but I\'ve never tried to do it before: How do you launch a web page from within an app? You know, \"click here to go to our FAQ\",

Answer 1

Please read the docs for ShellExecute closely. To really bulletproof your code, they recommend initializing COM. See the docs here, and look for the part that says "COM should be initialized as shown here". The short answer is to do this (if you haven't already init'd COM):

CoInitializeEx(NULL, COINIT_APARTMENTTHREADED | COINIT_DISABLE_OLE1DDE)