Hi I have the address of a property and my application can launch a browser to go to http://maps.google.com?q=searchStringHere. If a good match is found it will take it directly there. Is there any thing I can append to the url to make it switch to streetview without having the exact coordinates? I dont't want to code any javascript or flash.
Unfortunately not - there's no simple answer, based on the address.
Firstly, the list of parameters for the Google Maps site is documented here, so you can use that as your starting point.
The easy part is that you need to select the streetview layer "&layer=c".
However, before anything will display in that layer, you need to specify where your view is. You set the position by the latitude and longitude in cbll and the angle of the camera with some options in cbp.
To get the latitude and longitude from the address, you need to use a geocoding service, like the google maps api.
However, this will only get you a street view close to the address. In addition to knowing where the street view needs to be from, you also need to know which angle to point the camera at - this will be different for every address, depending on where the nearest point the StreetView camera took a photo from was, so it's not easy to do automatically (with any information that I know is available...)