Is there a dynamic-creation-friendly LinkLabel Alternative?

I'm trying to dynamically create a link from a Windows Form to our website when certain conditions are met (it's a warning message with further information in our online manual).

Currently I'm开发者_运维百科 finding LinkLabel quite unwieldy to use in this situation: having to set up LinkClicked handlers on the fly for a straightforward hyperlink seems inelegant.

Is there a wrapper or alternative that fulfills the following requirements?:

• Inherits from System.Windows.Forms.Control (so I can use it in a TableLayoutPanel)
• Has reasonably low setup (no strange LinkClicked function pre-visit checking, for example)
• Isn't bound to a specific browser

What is your problem with the LinkClicked event handler? You would have to do the same for almost any control in order to do anything useful.

Anyway, it would be trivial to implement yourself - create a class that inherits from LinkLabel, add a string URL property (you may need an attribute to make this show in the designer properties panel if you want to set it that way) and provide an event handler that opens the browser with that URL.

Then you can just add the control in the designer (or at runtime), set the URL property and it will work without having to set event handlers.

Did you use the LinkClicked event instead of OnClick? Then you can use this in the event handler:

    (sender as LinkLabel).LinkVisited = true;
    System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("http://example.com");

It's not bound a specific browser - opens in the user's default browser. The setup is low - just instantiate the LinkLabel, add an event hookup to LinkClicked (which is one two-line method) and add it to the page. What's unwieldy about this approach?

In the end I used LinkLabel.Links.Add to modify the link destination dynamically..