I'm unaware of any advantages of the hyperlink control over SHELLEXECUTE().
The ActiveDoc (including hyperlink control) was added in VFP6 and all references to ActiveDoc were removed in VFP8. However the hyperlink control still references it indirectly:
"A Hyperlink object provides navigational capabilities for Visual FoxPro applications hosted in containers such as Microsoft Internet Explorer. Note that the Hyperlink object is supported only in Microsoft Internet Explorer".


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>I didn't mean any disrespect in my question. I was really asking what are the advantages using either method. I just discovered the Hyperlink control the day that I posted my message.
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>I really don't know the history of the hyperlink control. My impression is that it became a part of VFP rather recently, version 8 maybe?
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>Is either method faster? Or for some other reason better?
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