{"id":156,"date":"2007-07-23T17:00:04","date_gmt":"2007-07-24T00:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/archives\/156"},"modified":"2007-11-23T02:39:49","modified_gmt":"2007-11-23T09:39:49","slug":"how-to-open-a-folder-with-the-default-file-manager-in-monoc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/archives\/156","title":{"rendered":"How to open a folder with the default file-manager in mono\/C#"},"content":{"rendered":"
\nusing System.Diagnostics;<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

Process.Start (“file:\/\/\/home\/”);\n<\/p><\/div>\n

Did a bit of IRC channel ping-pong today. Went over to #f-spot<\/a> to ask a user-related question<\/a> about f-spot<\/a>, and got pulled in by curiosity on a totally unrelated topic: opening a folder with the default file-manager<\/em>. Initiated some discussion on #mono<\/a> and discovered this was, in fact, not trivial<\/a> – which seemed odd. But I’ve never personally written any C#, or much desktop code at all, for that matter. So I started playing around with various suggestions from the good folks in #mono, and writing my very first C# application.<\/p>\n

(Yeah, basically a one-liner. You gotta start somewhere! ^_^) Anyway, for something so simple, there seemed to be a lot of uncertainty and discussion about it (even from the man<\/a>, himself! – He claims his memory is fading…), so I figure it’s worth documenting. More info can be seen here<\/a> under Process<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\nOn FreeDesktop systems it will use xdg-open, if not, it will try to use gnome-open or kfmclient to open the files.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Not sure if this will work on Windows. The file:\/\/<\/code> prefix is required.<\/p>\n

Update:<\/strong> According to ccoish<\/a>, this will<\/em> work on Windows.<\/p>\n

Passing this info back to #f-spot resulted in a patch<\/a> to allow you to open the folder containing your photo. Thanks, Gabriel! Open source is cool. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Not sure if I’ll look at C#\/Mono much more, was kinda gonna do the Python thing for a while… but this was a fun distraction. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

using System.Diagnostics; … Process.Start (“file:\/\/\/home\/”); Did a bit of IRC channel ping-pong today. Went over to #f-spot to ask a user-related question about f-spot, and got pulled in by curiosity on a totally unrelated topic: opening a folder with the default file-manager. Initiated some discussion on #mono and discovered this was, in fact, not trivial… Continue reading How to open a folder with the default file-manager in mono\/C#<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,11],"tags":[63,48,12,10,42,4,62,66],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek","category-projects","tag-c","tag-code","tag-floss","tag-gnome","tag-how-to","tag-linux","tag-mono","tag-programming","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4jEMb-2w","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}