Hi All,
I want to write C# code to identify a file type and open the file in
the associated editor.
For example, text files should be identified and opened in notepad,
html should be opened in internet explorer/netscape/mozilla.
At design time, I do not know if internet explorer/netscape is
installed on the client machine. The C# code should identify that and
open.
Please help.
Regards,
Shilpa 2 1564
Shilpa wrote: Hi All,
I want to write C# code to identify a file type and open the file in the associated editor.
Can you just look at the file extension?
Hi Shilpa,
There are a few ways to do this. I will describe three of them :
1. Files usually open in the associated editor by themself. So, you can
use :
System.Diagnost ics.Process.Sta rt("myProgram" , "arguments" );
Here myProgram is the path to the executable that opens the file, such
as Notepad.
Arguments is the FileName.
2. To generalize the above process, you can simply use :
System.Diagnost ics.Process.Sta rt("fileName") ;
This will automatically open any file in the associated program. If an
HTML file is selected, and multiple browsers are installed, it will
open the file in the System Default browser, be it IE, or Mozilla or
Netscape.
3. To account for cases where unrecognized file types may be passed as
parameters, you could a Select Case structure (Switch structure in C#),
wherein you could check the File Extenstion of each passed file and
make decisions accordingly :
FileInfo fi = new FileInfo("myFil eName");
string ext = fi.Extension;
string fn = fi.FullName;
switch (ext)
{
case ".txt"
System.Diagnost ics.Process.Sta rt("notepad.exe ", fn);
case ".pdf"
System.Diagnost ics.Process.Sta rt("AcroRd32.ex e", fn);
:
:
:
}
Typed here, so watch for syntax...
Hope this helps,
Regards,
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