I would like to make a link from a web page to a file on a local filesystem and make it work in all browsers (or at least in Internet Explorer, Firefox and Chrome).
For example, the following works in Internet Explorer:
<a href="\\myserver\doc\info.pdf">Info here</a>
but not in Firefox and Chrome.
Is there a way to make a link that ...
I would like to have a file in several different projects of a solution, however, Visual Studio only allows one link per solution to the file. Is there a way around this?
What is the issue of having several soft links to a single file within a VS project?
Update: I have added the link as described from the comments below, it seems that...
No matter what I do I cannot get either of these local File URIs:
<a href="file:///c:/">x</a>
<a href="file:///C:">x</a>
<a href="file:///C:\">x</a>
<a href="file://C:">x</a>
<a href="file:///C|/">x</a>
<a href="file:///C|">x</a>
<a href="C:\">x</a>
<a href="C:">x</a>
<a href="#" onclick="return window.open('c:\\');">#</a>
...to work....