Launching Local application from Browser Link

<i><b>Originally posted by : Sheldon (lais2@tdsecurities.com)</b></i><br />Hi,<br />I was wondering if anyone had any idea on how to launch an application sitting locally on my machine, using a link in an HTML page. Right now, it pops up the 'You have chosen to download a file..." message. The app exe is sitting on the local machine, is there any way to bypass this message and have the app run as normal?<br /><br />Thanks<br />-Sheldon

<i><b>Originally posted by : merLin (merlin@lockbox.com)</b></i><br />Sheldon,<br /><br />There's only a couple of ways to do what you're talking about, one way is to modify the program to be in the COM+ environment, but somehow I think that might be a bit too complex for what you are trying to do. Another way is to link to a file of a registered application, i.e. Link to template.psd to open up Photoshop. Other than that I would try the MS newsgroups, they could probably give you a better answer.<br /><br /><br />------------<br />Sheldon at 5/23/2000 3:03:07 PM<br /><br />Hi,<br />I was wondering if anyone had any idea on how to launch an application sitting locally on my machine, using a link in an HTML page. Right now, it pops up the 'You have chosen to download a file..." message. The app exe is sitting on the local machine, is there any way to bypass this message and have the app run as normal?<br /><br />Thanks<br />-Sheldon

<i><b>Originally posted by : Sheldon (lais2@tdsecurities.com)</b></i><br />Hi merLin,<br />I was just wondering if you'd be able to give me a quick rundown on how this would be achieved through COM+. I might just end up doing that.<br /><br />Thanks in advance,<br />-Sheldon<br /><br /><br /><br />------------<br />merLin at 5/24/2000 7:21:53 AM<br /><br />Sheldon,<br /><br />There's only a couple of ways to do what you're talking about, one way is to modify the program to be in the COM+ environment, but somehow I think that might be a bit too complex for what you are trying to do. Another way is to link to a file of a registered application, i.e. Link to template.psd to open up Photoshop. Other than that I would try the MS newsgroups, they could probably give you a better answer.<br /><br /><br />------------<br />Sheldon at 5/23/2000 3:03:07 PM<br /><br />Hi,<br />I was wondering if anyone had any idea on how to launch an application sitting locally on my machine, using a link in an HTML page. Right now, it pops up the 'You have chosen to download a file..." message. The app exe is sitting on the local machine, is there any way to bypass this message and have the app run as normal?<br /><br />Thanks<br />-Sheldon