Find Path To Client Application

[moongirl]

Part of an application I am building includes a button which the user
can click on to view a PDF file in Acrobat Reader, using the following
code:

System.Diagnost ics.Process.Sta rt(@"C:\Program Files
\Adobe\Reader 8.0\Reader\Acro Rd32.exe", @PDFfilePath);
However the path to acrobat reader is the path on my PC - what if the
path is different on the user's PC? How can I change the code to find
the path to the executable so it will work on any machine?

[Kevin Spencer]

Look in the user's registry.

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Part of an application I am building includes a button which the user
can click on to view a PDF file in Acrobat Reader, using the following
code:

System.Diagnost ics.Process.Sta rt(@"C:\Program Files
\Adobe\Reader 8.0\Reader\Acro Rd32.exe", @PDFfilePath);
However the path to acrobat reader is the path on my PC - what if the
path is different on the user's PC? How can I change the code to find
the path to the executable so it will work on any machine?

[Jiri Sitina]

Wouldn't it be better if you execute created pdf file directly - using
any pdf file viewer your client may use?

the execution may be provided as follows:

System.Diagnost ics.Process proc = new System.Diagnost ics.Process();
proc.EnableRais ingEvents=false ;
proc.StartInfo. FileName=myPdfF ilePath;
proc.Start();

It should work well for you

Jiri Sitina

On May 18, 1:21 pm, moongirl <moongirl...@ho tmail.comwrote:

Part of an application I am building includes a button which the user
can click on to view a PDF file in Acrobat Reader, using the following
code:

System.Diagnost ics.Process.Sta rt(@"C:\Program Files
\Adobe\Reader 8.0\Reader\Acro Rd32.exe", @PDFfilePath);

However the path to acrobat reader is the path on my PC - what if the
path is different on the user's PC? How can I change the code to find
the path to the executable so it will work on any machine?

[moongirl]

On 18 May, 12:42, Jiri Sitina <jirka.sit...@g mail.comwrote:

Wouldn't it be better if you execute created pdf file directly - using
any pdf file viewer your client may use?

the execution may be provided as follows:

System.Diagnost ics.Process proc = new System.Diagnost ics.Process();
proc.EnableRais ingEvents=false ;
proc.StartInfo. FileName=myPdfF ilePath;
proc.Start();

It should work well for you

Jiri Sitina

On May 18, 1:21 pm, moongirl <moongirl...@ho tmail.comwrote:

Part of an application I am building includes a button which the user
can click on to view a PDF file in Acrobat Reader, using the following
code:

System.Diagnost ics.Process.Sta rt(@"C:\Program Files
\Adobe\Reader 8.0\Reader\Acro Rd32.exe", @PDFfilePath);

However the path to acrobat reader is the path on my PC - what if the
path is different on the user's PC? How can I change the code to find
the path to the executable so it will work on any machine?- Hide quoted text -

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Thanks, that works great!