Open File

[pendragon]

Hi All

 

Hope you can help, I am trying to open word and pass the document to open as a string.

 

If the string is c:\bin\calllog.doc then it opens fine but if the path includes spaces then word says it can't find the document

 

ie c:\Documents and Setting\Administrator\My Documents\CallLog.doc

 

Can some one please tell me what it is I am forgetting to do :confused:

 

this is the code I am using

 

Process MyProcess;

string ProgramToRun = "WINWORD.EXE";
string DocumentToOpen = dataaccess.rowActions[dataaccess.colACTAttachmentPath].ToString() + dataaccess.rowActions[dataaccess.colACTAttachment].ToString();

MessageBox.Show(DocumentToOpen);

MyProcess = Process.Start(ProgramToRun, DocumentToOpen);
MyProcess.WaitForInputIdle();
MyProcess.Close();
MyProcess.Dispose();

 

Thank you for your help

[IngisKahn]

Surround the path in quotes.

[Robby]

Replace all spaces with %20

[Robby]

Ot like Ingis stated; surround the string in quotes. :)

[pendragon]

Thanks guys that works, such a simple solutions but I just couldn't see it last night. (need more sleep or caffeine :) )

[jmcilhinney]

By the way, you can simply pass the file path to Process.Start for a registered file type to open the file with the default program. It's not a big deal here, but if you had had to provide the full path to WinWord and didn't know it on another machine it would be an issue:

Process.Start("C:\\MyDocument.doc")