C# open up an given file using given program

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  14 years ago

  by ccm1st

  Jack Chen

  , Australia

  Joined 14 years ago

  Hi,  I am trying to write a program which can open up any file and allowing user to pick which program to use to open. e.g open up "mr.eml" using outlook express.

  But Currently I have no idea how I can do it in c#. Can anyone help me with that?

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  14 years ago

  by Rollershade

  Colin Harman MACITP

  West Sussex, England, Australia

  Joined 19 years ago

  first off , get the user to select a fill either by showing lists of files and folder http://www.developerfusion.co.uk/show/4359/ or by using the OpenFileDialog component, then use System.Diagnostics.Process to launch the file : example :

  http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.diagnostics.process.aspx

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  14 years ago

  by ankitdass

  Ankit Dass

  London, United Kingdom

  Joined 14 years ago

  Hi,

  Ttry using "ProcessStartInfo" class. This class provides you lots of proerties to specify the executable(to be launched) with and without arguments(parameters to be passed for starting a new process) and the also the style (e.g. window size, parent process, user authentication) for the process being sarted.

  Hope this helps

  Ankit 

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