Showing document in Windows Explorer

z1freeride · #1 July 1st, 2009, 06:07 PM

I'm programming a download manager and I'm trying to implement the "Show Containing Folder" feature that you would find in Firefox.

This is what I have so far:

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 Process proc = new Process();

proc.StartInfo.FileName = "explorer.exe";

proc.StartInfo.Arguments = dlPath;

proc.Start();

This simply opens the folder but in Firefox, it hilights the file. How would I do that?

insertAlias · #2 July 1st, 2009, 07:26 PM

Here's what I would do:

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 //change this line to whatever path you have:

string filepath = @"c:\dev\pointredemption.txt";

FileInfo fi = new FileInfo(filepath);

if (fi.Exists)

{

    Process proc = new Process();

    proc.StartInfo.FileName = "explorer.exe";

    proc.StartInfo.Arguments = "/select," + filepath; ;

    proc.Start();

}

else

    Console.WriteLine("DNE!");

Make sure to include using System.IO; to use the FileInfo object.

Basically, this will check to see if the file exists. If it does, it will start explorer and highlight the file. Otherwise, it will write to the console, but you can change that part.

Hope this helps.

Source: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314853

z1freeride · #3 July 1st, 2009, 11:06 PM

Perfect. Thank you!

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