[Closed] Opening a Windows Explorer Window through .Net?

Here is how to do that with .NET, the code is pretty small and easy to understand:

process = dotNetObject "System.Diagnostics.Process"
process.EnableRaisingEvents = false
process.StartInfo.FileName = "explorer"
process.StartInfo.Arguments = "C:\\"
process.Start()

A process starting explorer.exe with C: drive path as command line parameter is created.

Use

ShellLaunch "c:\" ""

instead

Thanks for the super fast responses guys. Each example that I see of .NET is bringing me slightly closer to being able to implement something useful with it!

Also nice trick there Professor420, completely overlooked that!

Thanks for your time guys,

Rich

I can’t quite remember if this was on maxscript or another language… I’m looking for a similar command that will let me open the explorer, and highlight-select a specified file. All I need is to input a string path complete up to the filename of the file.

for example:

?Command? “c:\ emp\my_file.txt”

any help would be largely appreciated

Using the earlier .NET bit:

  notepad = (sysinfo.windowsdir + "\
otepad.exe")
  "C:\WINDOWS
otepad.exe"
  process = dotNetObject "System.Diagnostics.Process"
  dotNetObject:System.Diagnostics.Process
  process.EnableRaisingEvents = false
  false
  process.StartInfo.FileName = "explorer"
  "explorer"
  process.StartInfo.Arguments = "/e,/select,\"" + notepad + "\""
  "/e,/select,"C:\WINDOWS
otepad.exe""
  process.Start()
  true
  

Or straight shellLaunch works much the same:

 shellLaunch "explorer.exe" "/e,/select,\"c:\\windows\
otepad.exe\""
 

Edit: also see…
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/130510

excellent! that was exactly what i needed! thanks a bunch!
also thanks for the link to the microsoft site, it never occured to me that the explorer.exe itself had switches.