Opening an explorer window with designated file selected

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I have an application which has an option to show the selected file in the folder in which the file resides. My question is, how do I achieve this?

To clarify, if a user in my program selected the "Test.txt" file, then I want a Windows Explorer window to pop up and highlight the file the user selected. You can see similar behavior in LimeWire and uTorrent. If you select a file in either of those programs and choose "Show in Folder", it pops up a Windows Explorer window with the file highlighted and selected. I am trying to duplicate this behavior.

I tried using the following line:

System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("Explorer");

This will popup the Windows Explorer window, however, it always seems to open up by default in "My Documents" folder.

windows-explorer shell .net c#
4 Answers

For VB:

Dim q as Char = ControlChars.Quote
Dim path As String = q & "D:\examples\test doc.txt" & q
Dim psi as New ProcessStartInfo("Explorer.exe", "/Select, " & path)
Process.Start(psi)

As others have pointed out, paths containing spaces must be enclosed in quotes.

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