how can i start this program from my form ?

rundll32.exe c:\windows\system32\shimgvw.dll,ImageView_Fullscreen image.tif ?

this is Windows Pictures and Fax Viewer from XP and I want to call it from
my app to displat an image (I need it, because it can handle multiple pages
tiffs)

i also have made use of a var sysFolder =
Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.System); to replace
'c:\windows\system32'

i can't even start the WPFV empty (w/o an image load into it)

here is a piece of code that normally would work

string curpath = System.IO.Directory.GetCurrentDirectory();
string sysFolder =
Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.System);
System.IO.Directory.SetCurrentDirectory(sysFolder);
System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("rundll32.exe " + sysFolder
+"\\shimgvw.dll,ImageView_Fullscreen c:\\modi\\starlac.tif");
System.IO.Directory.SetCurrentDirectory(curpath);

i'm changing to the system directory before executing the command and still
nothing hapens

"dragoon" wrote:

> how can i start this program from my form ?
>
> rundll32.exe c:\windows\system32\shimgvw.dll,ImageView_Fullscreen image.tif ?
>
> this is Windows Pictures and Fax Viewer from XP and I want to call it from
> my app to displat an image (I need it, because it can handle multiple pages
> tiffs)
>
> i also have made use of a var sysFolder =
> Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.System); to replace
> 'c:\windows\system32'
>
> i can't even start the WPFV empty (w/o an image load into it)

Hi,

Did you try to use:

public static Process Start(
string fileName,
string arguments
);

fileName="rundll32.exe";
arguments=sysFolder + "\\shimgvw.dll,ImageView_Fullscreen
c:\\modi\\starlac.tif";

HTH
Marcin

> here is a piece of code that normally would work
>
> string curpath = System.IO.Directory.GetCurrentDirectory();
> string sysFolder =
> Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.System);
> System.IO.Directory.SetCurrentDirectory(sysFolder);
> System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("rundll32.exe " + sysFolder
> +"\\shimgvw.dll,ImageView_Fullscreen c:\\modi\\starlac.tif");
> System.IO.Directory.SetCurrentDirectory(curpath);
>
> i'm changing to the system directory before executing the command and still
> nothing hapens
>
> "dragoon" wrote:
>
>
>>how can i start this program from my form ?
>>
>>rundll32.exe c:\windows\system32\shimgvw.dll,ImageView_Fullscreen image.tif ?
>>
>>this is Windows Pictures and Fax Viewer from XP and I want to call it from
>>my app to displat an image (I need it, because it can handle multiple pages
>>tiffs)
>>
>>i also have made use of a var sysFolder =
>>Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.System); to replace
>>'c:\windows\system32'
>>
>>i can't even start the WPFV empty (w/o an image load into it)