Open hyperlinks from Remote Desktop locally?

Question

I have a Winforms application written in VB.NET that we are migrating to a RemoteApp service. There are many dynamically generated hyperlinks in the program that when clicked will open in a browser in the RemoteApp session, instead of locally on the user's machine.

Is there way in VB.NET (or C#) to make the application aware of the remote session and somehow start a browser locally? Right now, we simply use System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(url) to start up the browser.

Thank you!

Answer 1

What your asking for is not part of RDP. You can use things like PsExec to get it to work, maybe look into Remote procedure call or you could create your own application that runs on the local computer all the time. Using mapped local drives option, you could then write a file to the local HD and this custom program could read it and run the program locally.

I'm sure there more ways to do this but this is a good starting point.