Question

Here’s the situation: I am trying to launch an application, but the location of the .exe isn’t known to me. Now, if the file extension is registered (in Windows), I can do something like:

Process.Start('Sample.xls'); 

However, I need to pass some command line arguments as well. I couldn’t get this to work

   Process p = new Process();    p.StartInfo.FileName = 'Sample.xls';    p.StartInfo.Arguments = '/r';  // open in read-only mode    p.Start(); 

Any suggestions on a mechanism to solve this?

Edit @ aku

My StackOverflow search skills are weak; I did not find that post. Though I generally dislike peering into the registry, that’s a great solution. Thanks!

Answer 1

Using my code from this answer you can get command associated with xls extension. Then you can pass this command to Process.Start method.