Using ShellExecute in C#

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Hi All,

None of my books on C# handle it. MSDN does not seem to mention ShellExecute in C#. Searching the answers section did not give me the answer I am looking for, can't find an article that gets one started with using it in C#. I have also tried googling the question, without success.

Calling for help after typing ShellExecute does not work because I have obviously left out a using clause, but nowhere can I find out what it is.

Please help.

Thanks in Advance.

Posted 26-Jun-11 18:58pm

Nigel Mackay

Updated 31-Mar-17 23:46pm

Ramalinga Koushik

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Solution 1

Did you have a look at this link[^]? Seems comprehensive.

Posted 26-Jun-11 19:06pm

Abhinav S

Solution 4

Winexec and ShellExecute are much more faster than ProcessStartInfo!!

Posted 31-Mar-17 23:46pm

ahead60

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Graeme_Grant 1-Apr-17 7:01am

Any reason why you are answering a 6-year-old question????

Kats2512 3-Apr-17 4:51am

been seeing quite a few old threads being opened again. no idea why people do this

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Dave Kreskowiak · Accepted Answer · 2011-06-26T19:12:00

Solution 2

Why would you use ShellExecute when there's a perfectly good alternative in the .NET Framework, using the Process[^] and ProcessStartInfo[^] classes?

Posted 26-Jun-11 19:12pm

Dave Kreskowiak