C# console app help needed

ringo747 · 17 Oct 2011 at 20:00

I'm putting together a console app to pull back a list of folders from a SharePoint document library. The part I cannot understand is how can I write the results to a temporary file and then have that file open up and display results to the user. Ideally it will stay open until the user closes it. They are meant to copy all the contents of the file onto the clipboard.

I am using Path.GetTempPath to create a temp file but how can I get this file to actually open in something like notepad?

Edit: ignore. I found System.Diagnostics.Process.Start which seems to do the trick.

OminousLatinNoun · 18 Oct 2011 at 18:32

Can you share what you put together in the end?

More personal curiosity than anything.

-Cheers.

ringo747 · 18 Oct 2011 at 18:40

The code for opening up the txt file is just this:

Code:

System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("MyFile.txt");

dasyad · 19 Oct 2011 at 09:48

Potential gotcha, if the OS doesn't know how to open the file you supply to that method it will throw an exception.

But you already have a try catch block round that right

ringo747 · 19 Oct 2011 at 10:22

If there isn't an application associated with that file then it will bring up the 'open with' wizard. Yes there is 'limited but adequate' error handling for now.