How to load .doc,.,pdf files

[johnjrd]

Hi

Am new here, and have a problem

We have a app which is a online Course Viewer, one feature is that it should biew documents held against the Course database.

For instance one field in the course database holds the path to a document (this could be anything from doc to pdf)

Is there a way to load the documents using the field as the file reference.

Any help would be great

thanks

 

[JurkMonkey]

You want to open the document using the path from the field?

You will most likely have to launch a Process that runs the viewer program (Acrobat, Word, etc.)

Look up System.Diagnostics.Process

 

[gplusplus]

Like JurkMoney said use a Process to start it like this.

WINWORD.exe takes an argument of the path to the desired file as suggests here near the bottom of this article:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/210565

So to open just pass the path as an argument into the process.

Process.Start(path_to_microsoft_word, path_to_doc);

Thats it.

 

[JurkMonkey]

Process.Start(path_to_microsoft_word, path_to_doc);

I believe this is actually supposed to be

Process p = new Process();

p.StartInfo.Arguments = "PATH TO FILE";

p.Start();

 

[gplusplus]

JurkMonkey

Process.Start(arg1, arg2) can take in two arguments, the exe and the arguments for the exe. I know because Ive used it like that many times.

 

[JurkMonkey]

I see.

I just did it in Mono not long ago but I used the StartInfo property. Same thing.

Thanks for the info!