Mark:
Imports System.Diagnostics
Class Explorer
Public Shared Sub StartExplorer(ByVal folder As String)
Dim sExplorerEXE As String = String.Format("{0}\explorer.exe",
Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("windir"))
Dim info As New ProcessStartInfo(sExplorerEXE)
info.Arguments = "/n," + folder
Process.Start(info)
End Sub
End Class
see Command-Line Switches for Windows Explorer:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q130510/
Hope this helps,
Shariq Khan
shariq@shariqkhan.com
"Mark" <field027@idonotlikejunkmail.umn.edu> wrote in message
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> I'd like to open up Windows Explorer from my .NET desktop application to a
> specific path. I essentially want to execute:
>
> %Systemroot%\explorer.exe c:\somepath\
>
> How can this be done? Thanks in advance.
>
> Mark
>
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