opening a document with system's default app

[Rubén Cuenca]

Hy, I need to open files by clicking a open button in a form.
Files would be in any format and I want to open them with system's asociated
aplication.
Thanks for your atention.

[Oenone]

Rubén Cuenca wrote:

Hy, I need to open files by clicking a open button in a form.
Files would be in any format and I want to open them with system's
asociated aplication.

Use the UseShellExecute property of a Process object, it'll launch a file
with whatever application is registered as the default viewer. For example,
to open a PDF file:

\\\
Dim proc As New Process
'Set the process details
With proc.StartInfo
'Set the information for the file to launch
.FileName = "C:\YourPDFFile.pdf"
.UseShellExecute = True
End With
'Open the file
proc.Start()
///

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(O)enone

[Cor Ligthert [MVP]]

Ruben,

Open a document means nothing, a document can be everything. It is a file,
but it can be a part of a WebPage, a doc file from Word, a part of a table
in a database etc. etc.

Can you explain a little bit more what you want?

Cor

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Hy, I need to open files by clicking a open button in a form.
Files would be in any format and I want to open them with system's
asociated
aplication.
Thanks for your atention.

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

"Rubén Cuenca" <el*****@hotmail.com> schrieb:

Hy, I need to open files by clicking a open button in a form.
Files would be in any format and I want to open them with system's
asociated
aplication.

\\\
Imports System.Diagnostics
....
Process.Start("C:\foo.doc")
///

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