Was wondering if you could show me how to:

Make a .EXE file that:

Once downloaded,

instantly went to a particular website (of my choosing) automatically.

Not the right place. Er.. Go to general computing maybe?

This is more of a question for the coding forum. Also, what langauge are you coding in? When you say download do you mean download and open or just download? Generally a program has to be executed in order for it to do something.

What I mean is: a user downloads your .EXE and clicks the "run" button.

When the user clicks the "run" button, a window with your website's page pops up in response.


Is anybody familiar with what would need to be done to execute such a thing? I'm fairly new to the concept myself.

VB6 can do it.

Sample code is at pscode.com

I'll write the EXE for you for $25.

Originally Posted by Lashtal

Is anybody familiar with what would need to be done to execute such a thing? I'm fairly new to the concept myself.

IE does it. So does FF. Actually all browsers do it. What you want is probably a little different, just to piggy back on someone else's browser. I'm not sure why a person would download your exe file instead of just following a link, but that's your issue to solve.

You can get the free but full compiler and IDE here, from Microsoft. Start a Windows Forms project. Your code will look like this, in Program.cs

void main()
{
try
{
System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("http://www.web-site.com");
}
catch(Exception ex)
{
System.Windows.Forms.MessageBox.Show(ex.Message);
}
}

Thankfully, the browsers have a cancel or no option.