Open windows explorer at server path

[Colin Williams]

Hi
I am trying to open windows explorer at a specific path on a server.
Path is not found
whe run. It works ok using a local path. How do i address a server?

Code as follows;
{
System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo exploreTest
= new System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo();
exploreTest.FileName = "explorer.exe";
exploreTest.Arguments ="\"\\servername\\path\\";
System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(exploreTest);
}
Thanks
Colin Williams

 

[Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]]

Colin,

It's the Arguments property. It should look like this:

exploreTest.Arguments = "\\\\servername\\path\\";

Hope this helps.

 

[Colin Williams]

Thanks Nicholas
Works great. Im having trouble getting my head round the backslash
usage for paths in C#. I must have tried everthing else but your
solution.
Kind regards
Colin

Colin,

It's the Arguments property. It should look like this:

exploreTest.Arguments = "\\\\servername\\path\\";

Hope this helps.


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- Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]
- (e-mail address removed)

Hi
I am trying to open windows explorer at a specific path on a server.
Path is not found
whe run. It works ok using a local path. How do i address a server?

Code as follows;
{
System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo exploreTest
= new System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo();
exploreTest.FileName = "explorer.exe";
exploreTest.Arguments ="\"\\servername\\path\\";
System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(exploreTest);
}
Thanks
Colin Williams

 

[Samuel R. Neff]

For paths you could use @"" instead of just quotes which will allow
you to use individual slashes:

exploreTest.Arguments = @"\\servername\path\";

Also for most places in windows you can use a forward-slash instead

new StreamReader("c:/temp/test.txt");

Process is one of the exceptions--won't work in the original situation
you specified, but will work most places.

HTH,

Sam


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