"Greg" <grtho***@magma.ca> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I am trying to use the System.Diagnostics.Process namespace to open up
> some windows in a browser dynamically.  The urls I want to open are
> sent to a function in a generic string list.  When I loop through
> these urls and open them, sometimes they all open, sometimes only 2
> open (but really all have opened, only 1 has been overwritten).
>
> I have created the following sample to make sure it wasn't just the
> context of my code and the same thing happens, sometimes the windows/
> urls overwrite each other (which is not what I want).  They should
> each open in their own tab or window.  I have tried
> StartInfo.CreateNoWindow = true and this not helped either.
>
> If you run the following code you might see all 3 open but you should
> see them overwriting at some point.
>
> I am stumped on how to do this cleaning and reliably all the time.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Greg
>
> The code;
>
> using System;
> using System.Collections.Generic;
> using System.ComponentModel;
> using System.Data;
> using System.Drawing;
> using System.Text;
> using System.Windows.Forms;
> using System.Diagnostics;
> using System.Threading;
>
> namespace ProcessTest
> {
>    public partial class Form1 : Form
>    {
>        public Form1()
>        {
>            InitializeComponent();
>        }
>
>        private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
>        {
>            List<string> m_urls = new List<string>();
>            m_urls.Add("http://www.cnn.com");
>            m_urls.Add("http://www.google.com");
>            m_urls.Add("http://www.msn.com");
>
>            foreach (string url in m_urls)
>            {
>                Process process = new Process();
>                process.Refresh();
>                process.StartInfo.FileName = (url.ToString());
>                process.Start();
>                process.Refresh();
>                process = null;
>            }
>        }
>    }
> }
>