C# OS File-association de-integration

[Josiah Smith]

Hi,
I'm using MS Office Infopath in a hosted application, but for simplicity's
sake, I'll use Word as an example in describing my problem.

I have a hosted webbrowser control that links to a sharepoint server
document library. I want the user to be able to click on a Word document in
the library (a document named 'test 555.doc' for example), and when they
click on the link, the url of that file, not the webbrowser's statustext
field that says "Shortcut to test%20555.doc ", (there is white space at the
end of the string) but the actual url of the file is returned to my
application as a string for future use.

Here's the tricky part. I am trying to stop MS Word from opening, and
essentially use the document url string to programatically open the word
document in a rich text box (for argument's sake; I actually have a hosted
InfoPath form control programatically opening an *.xml document that the user
clicked on). I am currently having trouble stopping the OS from
automatically opening the stand-alone MS Word application, when I intend to
handle the document my own way in my app.

I also am having trouble changing the webbrowser control's statustext from
"Shortcut to test%20555.doc " into "http://server/folder/test%20555.doc".
I've even tried using a new string variable as a memory swap variable, and I
still cannot use the .Replace(string,string) method on it. It won't change.

Any help, criticism, comments, or redirection to better sources of help
would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Josiah