opening a document with system's default app

26 May 2006 7:40 AM

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.

26 May 2006 10:04 AM

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

26 May 2006 10:13 AM

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.
>
>

26 May 2006 11:38 AM

Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]

"Rubén Cuenca" <el_p***@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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