Open a text file in Notepad

[Hardus Lombaard]

I have a windows app in which I want to open a text file in Notepad. When a button is clicked, a file dialog must open which lets the user select a file to be opened in notepad. I know how to create an OpenFileDialog, but I don't know how to open the selected file in Notepad. How does one do this?

[Calla]

Check out the Process class in the System.Diagnostics namespace. You should create a Process object, set its StartInfo properties to launch notepad and open your selected text file. Something like this.

System.Diagnostics.Process p = new System.Diagnostics.Process();
p.StartInfo.FileName = @"C:\Windows\notepad.exe";
p.StartInfo.Arguments = @"C:\yourPath\yourTextFile.txt";
p.Start();

[Luc Pattyn]

Process.Start(filename) opens the file in its default application, as if you double-clicked it in Windows Explorer. :)

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[Hardus Lombaard]

Any idea how to do this in ASP.NET?