Open windows explorer at server path

[Colin Williams]

Hi
I am trying to open windows explorer at a specific path on a server.
Path is not found
whe run. It works ok using a local path. How do i address a server?

Code as follows;
{
System.Diagnost ics.ProcessStar tInfo exploreTest
= new System.Diagnost ics.ProcessStar tInfo();
exploreTest.Fil eName = "explorer.e xe";
exploreTest.Arg uments ="\"\\servernam e\\path\\";
System.Diagnost ics.Process.Sta rt(exploreTest) ;
}
Thanks
Colin Williams

[Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]]

Colin,

It's the Arguments property. It should look like this:

exploreTest.Arg uments = "\\\\servername \\path\\";

Hope this helps.
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"Colin Williams" <co************ **@msn.comwrote in message
news:11******** *************@i 3g2000cwc.googl egroups.com...

Hi
I am trying to open windows explorer at a specific path on a server.
Path is not found
whe run. It works ok using a local path. How do i address a server?

Code as follows;
{
System.Diagnost ics.ProcessStar tInfo exploreTest
= new System.Diagnost ics.ProcessStar tInfo();
exploreTest.Fil eName = "explorer.e xe";
exploreTest.Arg uments ="\"\\servernam e\\path\\";
System.Diagnost ics.Process.Sta rt(exploreTest) ;
}
Thanks
Colin Williams

[Colin Williams]

Thanks Nicholas
Works great. Im having trouble getting my head round the backslash
usage for paths in C#. I must have tried everthing else but your
solution.
Kind regards
Colin


Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP] wrote:

Colin,

It's the Arguments property. It should look like this:

exploreTest.Arg uments = "\\\\servername \\path\\";

Hope this helps.
--
- Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]
- mv*@spam.guard. caspershouse.co m

"Colin Williams" <co************ **@msn.comwrote in message
news:11******** *************@i 3g2000cwc.googl egroups.com...

Hi
I am trying to open windows explorer at a specific path on a server.
Path is not found
whe run. It works ok using a local path. How do i address a server?

Code as follows;
{
System.Diagnost ics.ProcessStar tInfo exploreTest
= new System.Diagnost ics.ProcessStar tInfo();
exploreTest.Fil eName = "explorer.e xe";
exploreTest.Arg uments ="\"\\servernam e\\path\\";
System.Diagnost ics.Process.Sta rt(exploreTest) ;
}
Thanks
Colin Williams

[Samuel R. Neff]

For paths you could use @"" instead of just quotes which will allow
you to use individual slashes:

exploreTest.Arg uments = @"\\servername\ path\";

Also for most places in windows you can use a forward-slash instead

new StreamReader("c :/temp/test.txt");

Process is one of the exceptions--won't work in the original situation
you specified, but will work most places.

HTH,

Sam
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On 14 Sep 2006 14:04:17 -0700, "Colin Williams"
<co************ **@msn.comwrote :

>Thanks Nicholas
Works great. Im having trouble getting my head round the backslash
usage for paths in C#. I must have tried everthing else but your
solution.
Kind regards
Colin


Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP] wrote:

>Colin,

It's the Arguments property. It should look like this:

exploreTest.Ar guments = "\\\\servername \\path\\";

Hope this helps.