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Shell without the Application?
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| Elmo Watson 2005-02-25, 3:55 am |
| How can I, based on having the exact path of the file I want to open, have
that file open using its default app, based on the extension?
I understand the Shell function, but all the examples I've seen use Shell
(app.name, filepath)
so if .txt is assigned to Notepad - how do I point to the file/pathname and
just make it open?
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| Tom Esh 2005-02-25, 3:55 am |
| On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 21:21:06 -0600, "Elmo Watson"
<sputnik@nospam.yahoo.com> wrote:
>How can I, based on having the exact path of the file I want to open, have
>that file open using its default app, based on the extension?
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>I understand the Shell function, but all the examples I've seen use Shell
>(app.name, filepath)
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>so if .txt is assigned to Notepad - how do I point to the file/pathname and
>just make it open?
Use either the ShellExecute or ShellExecuteEx Api function. There are
plenty of examples both, including:
http://vbnet.mvps.org/
http://www.mentalis.org/
-Tom
MVP - Visual Basic
(please post replies to the newsgroup)
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| Elmo Watson 2005-02-25, 3:56 pm |
| Great - found some examples and it works just like I need it too.
Thanks
"Tom Esh" <tjeshGibberish@suscom.net> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 21:21:06 -0600, "Elmo Watson"
> <sputnik@nospam.yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Use either the ShellExecute or ShellExecuteEx Api function. There are
> plenty of examples both, including:
> http://vbnet.mvps.org/
> http://www.mentalis.org/
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> -Tom
> MVP - Visual Basic
> (please post replies to the newsgroup)
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