Question

I’m just finishing off coding a a document storage solution and I’ve run across the following issue. Within the UI the user can press a button to open a file:

try
{
    Process.Start(file);
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
    //Error handling code
}

My issue is that if the user has no application associated with the file type a componentmodel exception is thrown with a message to that effect.

What I’d rather do is have the “Open with” dialog pop-up in that situation, is there a method call I’m missing?

Answer 1

See this article for using the Open With dialog

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/shell/openwith.aspx

I would put the Process.Start call in a try statement, and then show the “Open With” in the catch.