Is there a way to launch an Explorer window and highlight a file in that folder with WPF ? I've already tried the following :
Process ExplorerWindowProcess = new Process();
ExplorerWindowProcess.StartInfo.FileName = "explorer.exe";
ExplorerWindowProcess.StartInfo.Arguments = ConfigFile.File.FullName;
ExplorerWindowProcess.Start();
... but that opens the file (in my case an XML file) with the default application in Windows Explorer, which I very much don't want. I know that the Aptana tools available for Eclipse allow you the ability to select a file in the Eclipse project browser and show the file in Explorer exactly as I want, but I need a way to implement this in my WPF app.
Explorer Command Line Arguments
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/152457
Explorer [/n] [/e] [(,)/root,<object>] [/select,<object>]
/n Opens a new single-pane window for the default
selection. This is usually the root of the drive Windows
is installed on. If the window is already open, a
duplicate opens.
/e Opens Windows Explorer in its default view.
/root,<object> Opens a window view of the specified object.
/select,<object> Opens a window view with the specified folder, file or
application selected.
You will also want to put quotes around the filename like so:
startInfo.FileName = "explorer.exe";
startInfo.Arguments = "/select,\"" + ConfigFile.File.FullName + "\"";
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I want to open a PDF with the default windows behaviour the user has saved (e.g. internet explorer, adobe, whatever).
I found this solution
Opening a .pdf file in windows form through a button click
and implemented it here:
ProcessStartInfo startInfo = new ProcessStartInfo("MyPdfPath");
Process.Start(startInfo);
Sadly I got an Error:
System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception: "The specified executable is not a valid application for this OS platform."
I tried to google this error, but nothing of the first ten solution ideas worked.
The system is treating it like an executable, one way to get the document behavior is to set UseShellExecute to true:
ProcessStartInfo startInfo = new ProcessStartInfo("MyPdfPath");
startInfo.UseShellExecute = true;
Process.Start(startInfo);
I'm using a Microsoft.Win32.SaveFileDialog in a WPF application which is fine in Windows 10 but some users are still using Windows XP and initially the dialog shows no files.
Changing the file type to another type updates the list. It appears to only be the initial loading.
I've used System.Windows.Forms.SaveFileDialog, using a "Using", making sure the Dialog has an owner Window and using BeginInvoke on the current dispatcher.
lSaveFileDialog = new Microsoft.Win32.SaveFileDialog();
lSaveFileDialog.Title = "Datei speichern";
lSaveFileDialog.InitialDirectory = pFilenameElements.IFilenameElement_DirectoryInfo.FullName;
lSaveFileDialog.Filter = "Word Dateien (*.doc)|*.doc|Alle Dateien (*.*)|*.*";
lSaveFileDialog.RestoreDirectory = true;
lSaveFileDialog.FileName = pSuggestedFilename;
if (lSaveFileDialog.ShowDialog() == true)
{
return lSaveFileDialog.FileName;
}
I expect the Dialog to open and display other Word files in the current folder but it only does that if I switch the filter to "All" and then I see everything. Switching back to "Word" and I see the Word files.
On Windows 10 there is no problem.
I have a Selenium WebDriver based script to automate file uploading. It uploads list of files one by one. I use AutoIT script to handle dialog window, file chooser window. Parameter $CmdLine[1] contains the path of actual file.
ControlFocus("Open a file","","Edit1")
ControlSetText("Open a file","","Edit1", $CmdLine[1])
ControlClick("Open a file","","Button1")
I execute it from Java code as following:
Runtime.getRuntime().exec(autoITExecutable);
It opens dialog window, so it can't work without focus on browser window.
File upload field works like this demo:
https://encodable.com/uploaddemo/
I ran simple script for the link you gave and it works great
import os
from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get("https://encodable.com/uploaddemo/")
driver.find_element_by_name("uploadname1").send_keys(os.getcwd() + "/test.csv")
driver.find_element_by_name("email_address").send_keys("none#getnada.com")
driver.find_element_by_name("first_name").send_keys("Tarun")
driver.find_element_by_id("uploadbutton").click()
Try your code in similar format as shown below and try:
WinWaitActive("File Upload") // enter the title of the pop up
Send("Path of the file to enter") // enter the path of the file to upload
Send("{ENTER}") / press enter
My WPF app is using the Microsoft.Win32.OpenFileDialog to select a SQL Server 2008 database to open.
It works OK but for one issue: When the database selected in the dialog was previously opened at some time since last boot, the file seems to be held open by SQL server in the background (even when it is not opened by my app and my app has been restarted). This causes a "file is used by another application" warning when OK is clicked in the OpenFileDialog and i can not use the dialog to open that particular database until the computer is rebooted. It seems the OpenFileDialog tries to open the file selected and doing that discovers that it is already opened by another app (SQL Server). How do i disable the OpenFileDialog from trying to open the selected file and just return the filename of the selected file without any checks?
My code looks like this:
public void OpenDatabase() {
// Let user select database to open from file browser dialog
// Configure open file dialog box
var dlg = new Microsoft.Win32.OpenFileDialog();
dlg.FileName = ""; // Default file name
dlg.DefaultExt = ".mdf"; // Default file extension
dlg.Filter = "Databases (.mdf)|*.mdf|All Files|*.*"; // Filter files by extension
dlg.CheckFileExists = false;
dlg.CheckPathExists = false;
// Show open file dialog box
bool? result = dlg.ShowDialog(); // Gives file in use warning second time!
// Process open file dialog box results
if (result == true) {
// Open document
string filename = dlg.FileName;
TryOpenDatabase(filename);
}
}
The underlying option is OFN_NOVALIDATE for early Windows versions, FOS_NOVALIDATE for the Vista dialog you get on later versions of Windows and .NET. The description from MSDN:
Do not check for situations that would prevent an application from opening the selected file, such as sharing violations or access denied errors.
Which is what you see happening now, the dialog sees a sharing violation on the database file. This option is in fact exposed on the OpenFileDialog wrapper class, add this line of code to fix your problem:
dlg.ValidateNames = false;
The MSDN forum has a post about this
It is in the OpenFileDialog API, you can turn that off using
ValidateNames = false
on the Dialog.
I am working on an Adobe Air application that I would like to be able to launch a movie using the default application. The code I am trying is:
var file:File = new File;
//currentMovie.ConfiguredPath = 'D:\\Movies\\TestMovie.avi';
file.nativePath = currentMovie.ConfiguredPath;
file.openWithDefaultApplication();
I have also tried this:
//currentMovie.ConfiguredPath = file://D:/Movies/TestMovie.avi'
navigateToURL(newURLRequest(currentMovie.ConfiguredPath));
The first option does nothing. No application opens, no errors, nothing. The second option worked but it launches a separate window, downloads the file to the local user's download directory then opens the file (as long as you click "Open"). This is not exactly the behavior that I was hoping for.