Open explorer from text box

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Hi,
I have one textbox and hyperlink button in silverlight application, after the page is displayed if i type "C:/D:/filepath" in text box and click the hyperlink button it should open the according to our given path in new Explorer.. Here i have to open my C Drive. So pls suggest me..
I wrote like below format but it won't getting..

string str1 = Uri.UnescapeDataString(str);
if (Uri.IsWellFormedUriString(str1, UriKind.Absolute))
{
       Uri uri = new Uri(str);
       linkBtn.NavigateUri = uri;
       linkBtn.TargetName = "_blank";
}
here: str: string from text box
      linkBtn: hyperlink button

Thanks..

Posted 16-Sep-10 4:16am

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Updated 16-Sep-10 19:07pm

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DavidKiryazi · Answer 1 · 2010-09-16T14:38:00

Solution 1

Hi,

You need to launch explorer as a process.

using System.Diagnostics;

TextBox pathTextBox = new TextBox();

Process p = new Process();            
p.StartInfo.FileName = "explorer";            
p.StartInfo.Arguments = @pathTextBox.Text; // make sure to include '@'
p.Start();

Dave

Posted 16-Sep-10 14:38pm

DavidKiryazi

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AspDotNetDev 16-Sep-10 21:28pm

The @ sign is not useful here at all. You are probably confusing it with its usage with literal strings. I'm pretty sure it's use here is so you can use a variable named after a C# keyword.

DavidKiryazi 17-Sep-10 1:16am

yeah I think your right :) my mistake

Baji Jabbar 17-Sep-10 3:10am

Nice one :thumbsup: