Opening a File by Association
Posted: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 10:16 AM
by
bruce
Filed under: Home, Tips, Newsletter
For a simple application, which I hope to share with you shortly, I needed to be able to launch the application associated with a particular file type. For example, if you had a file called 'test.log' and the '.log' extension was associated with UltraEdit32, I wanted to launch UltraEdit32 and load up test.log. While I could have located the file association in the registry and launched the application, there is an easier way. Use the Process class to execute “test.log” as a command and let Windows do the rest.
System.Diagnostics.Process proc = new System.Diagnostics.Process();
proc.EnableRaisingEvents = false;
proc.StartInfo.FileName = “test.log“;
proc.Start();
I can't get over how nicely the little things in the .NET Framework fit together. It's almost like someone...what's the word...designed it ;)
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