Get default application

[Allan Bredahl]

Hi

I'm having a little trouble with starting a Process via a filename like:

Process _process = System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("c:\test.doc");
It works great, but I just cant get the process.Exited event to fire.
It's just like the process dies and in this case Word is started in annother
process.
Therefore I need someway to control the Word process or alternatively
someway to get the default application in windows for each filetype.
".doc" --"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\winword.exe"
".txt" --"C:\Windows\Notepad.exe"

and so on
Because if I do this it works :

Process _process = System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("C:\Program
Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\winword.exe", "c:\test.doc");

Somebody have a heloing hand here ?

Thanks in advance

Allan

[Family Tree Mike]

You need to set the EnableRaisinigEvents property to true to be notified of
..Exited events. Normally I would do something like this:

myProcess.StartInfo.FileName = "c:\test.doc";
myProcess.StartInfo.Verb = "Open";
myProcess.StartInfo.CreateNoWindow = true;
myProcess.EnableRaisingEvents = true;
myProcess.Exited += new EventHandler(myProcess_Exited);
myProcess.Start();

"Allan Bredahl" <al***@bredahl.orgwrote in message
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Hi

I'm having a little trouble with starting a Process via a filename like:

Process _process = System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("c:\test.doc");
It works great, but I just cant get the process.Exited event to fire.
It's just like the process dies and in this case Word is started in
annother process.
Therefore I need someway to control the Word process or alternatively
someway to get the default application in windows for each filetype.
".doc" --"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\winword.exe"
".txt" --"C:\Windows\Notepad.exe"

and so on
Because if I do this it works :

Process _process = System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("C:\Program
Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\winword.exe", "c:\test.doc");

Somebody have a heloing hand here ?

Thanks in advance

Allan

[Allan Bredahl]

Thanks

But I forgot to write the myProcess.EnableRaisingEvents = true; line in my
example.

I actually did that.

It works great with PDF files, jpg files etc. but when opening a doc file in
Word, the process dies.
/
Allan

"Family Tree Mike" <Fa************@ThisOldHouse.comwrote in message
news:%2****************@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...

You need to set the EnableRaisinigEvents property to true to be notified
of .Exited events. Normally I would do something like this:

myProcess.StartInfo.FileName = "c:\test.doc";
myProcess.StartInfo.Verb = "Open";
myProcess.StartInfo.CreateNoWindow = true;
myProcess.EnableRaisingEvents = true;
myProcess.Exited += new EventHandler(myProcess_Exited);
myProcess.Start();

[Teme64]

Allan Bredahl wrote:

Hi

I'm having a little trouble with starting a Process via a filename like:

Process _process = System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("c:\test.doc");
It works great, but I just cant get the process.Exited event to fire.
It's just like the process dies and in this case Word is started in
annother process.
Therefore I need someway to control the Word process or alternatively
someway to get the default application in windows for each filetype.
".doc" --"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\winword.exe"
".txt" --"C:\Windows\Notepad.exe"

and so on
Because if I do this it works :

Process _process = System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("C:\Program
Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\winword.exe", "c:\test.doc");

Somebody have a heloing hand here ?

Thanks in advance

Allan

Here's a VB.NET code to get default application:
http://windevblog.blogspot.com/2008/...indows-xp.html
You can convert the code to C# with:
http://www.developerfusion.com/tools.../vb-to-csharp/
the result seemed ok to me.

--

Teme64 @ http://windevblog.blogspot.com

[Family Tree Mike]

This code in a button on a form works for me. I don't know what to tell
you...

private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
System.Diagnostics.Process p = System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(@"c:\some
folder\some.doc");
p.EnableRaisingEvents = true;
p.Exited += new EventHandler(p_Exited);
}

void p_Exited(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
MessageBox.Show("Woah, Nelly!!!");
}

"Allan Bredahl" <al***@bredahl.orgwrote in message
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Thanks

But I forgot to write the myProcess.EnableRaisingEvents = true; line in my
example.

I actually did that.

It works great with PDF files, jpg files etc. but when opening a doc file
in Word, the process dies.
/
Allan

"Family Tree Mike" <Fa************@ThisOldHouse.comwrote in message
news:%2****************@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...

>You need to set the EnableRaisinigEvents property to true to be notified
of .Exited events. Normally I would do something like this:

myProcess.StartInfo.FileName = "c:\test.doc";
myProcess.StartInfo.Verb = "Open";
myProcess.StartInfo.CreateNoWindow = true;
myProcess.EnableRaisingEvents = true;
myProcess.Exited += new EventHandler(myProcess_Exited);
myProcess.Start();