Open File With Associated Application [C#]

This example demonstrates how to open file with an associated program. It shows, how to open text document in notepad, how to open image in a default viewer or how to open url address in a default web browser.

// open text file in notepad (or another default text editor) System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(@"c:\textfile.txt");

// open image in default viewer System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(@"c:\image.jpg");

// open url in default web browser System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("https://www.csharp-examples.net");

// open PDF file System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(@"c:\document.pdf");

Similarly you can open Word document or any other file from your .NET application.

Files and Folders Examples

[C#] FileStream Open File – how to open file using file stream
[C#] FileStream Read File – how to safely read file stream
[C#] Read Text File – how to read lines from text file
[C#] Load Text File to String – how to load text from file to string
[C#] Get Files from Directory – how to get files from directory
[C#] Delete All Files – how to delete files from the specified directory
[C#] Get Application Directory – how to get application or assembly folder
[C#] File Attributes – how to get or set file attributes
[C#] Get File Time – how to get last modification time of a file
[C#] Open File With Associated Application – how to launch the default application

Open File With Associated Application [C#]

Files and Folders Examples

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