Opening an HTML file from Visual basic

Can anyone tell me how to open an HTML file from visual basic.net? I do not want to edit it or anything, I literally just want to open the html file named Main (Main.html) when my "Users Guide" button is clicked. Any suggestions will be much appreciated. Thank you
Ken

Well, do you wish to view it as text or as a web page?

If you want to view it as text, look at the System.IO namespace and use those classes (see this tutorial for some help: http://www.xtremevbtalk.com/showthread.php?t=148864)

If you wish to view it as a web page, you will need the IE Webbrowser control.

Well, do you wish to view it as text or as a web page?

If you want to view it as text, look at the System.IO namespace and use those classes (see this tutorial for some help: http://www.xtremevbtalk.com/showthread.php?t=148864)

If you wish to view it as a web page, you will need the IE Webbrowser control.

I want to view the file as a webpage. I literally just want to click a button and have Internet Explorer open with the html file as a webpage

Next question then. Do you want to open IE itself, or open IE within your program?

If just IE by itself, use System.Diagnostics.Process namespace.

Otherwise use the IE webbrowser.

First off - I would like to open the website separate from my program, I basically want to open the file with a new instance of IE completely separate from my program.

by using this forum I have obtained some code that works

System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("Iexplore", "http://www....Main.html")

where the "http://www......Main.html" is my personal website.
but the problem is, I would really like to link the file locally. I tried the following code:

System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("Iexplore", "Main.html")

and put Main.html in my bin file, but this gave me an error because when IE opened it opened with "http://Main.html" which caused a problem. Any Suggestions?
Ken

Try using a file path reference:

File://c:\myprogram\myhtmlfile.html as the URL and not the http://.....etc