Question

I am saving files (images, Excel doc, Word doc, exe files, bat files and so on). I need to execute the file from inside my program and the question is if there is a way to let Windows handle how to run/execute the file? Like when you double click on a file in Explorer?

Answer 1

Take a look at the Process.Start method:

System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(myFileName)

Note: this will work with any registered file-extension, for example

System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(@"c:\Image.bmp")

will open the image with the registered program.