Opening Folder if file exists in folder

Having difficulty with the module below failing on line 21. It is telling me:
The system cannot find the file specified. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070002)
Basically what it is designed to do is look for a directory, if that exists then look for a file in that directory. If both = True then it should open the folder to browse the files. I believe the issue is with the "Program Files" being 2 words since the script runs using a root path, but I'm not sure how to format the path correctly to make it work?! Ideas? :confused:

Code:

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Imports System.IO
Module Startup

    Sub Main()
        Dim RPath As String
        Dim RedunOff As String
        RPath = "C:\Program Files\Directory\Data\Configuration"
        RedunOff = "C:\Program Files\Directory\Data\Configuration\Random.xml"
        If Directory.Exists(RPath) = True Then
            If File.Exists(RedunOff) = True Then
                Dim objShell = CreateObject("Wscript.Shell")
                objShell.run(RPath)
            End If
        End If

    End Sub

End Module

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First up, if you want to get the path to the Program Files folder, or any other standard folder for that matter, then you should be using Environment.GetFolderPath or My.Computer.FileSystem.SpecialDirectories. You can then use IO.Path.Combine or My.Computer.FileSystem.CombinePath to append a relative folder or file path. If you then want to open a file or folder, you should be calling Process.Start. If you pass a folder path then it will open that folder in Windows Explorer.

try this:

vb Code:

Dim RPath As String = "C:\Program Files\Directory\Data\Configuration"
Dim RedunOff As String = "C:\Program Files\Directory\Data\Configuration\Random.xml"
If IO.Directory.Exists(RPath) AndAlso IO.File.Exists(RedunOff) Then
    Process.Start(RPath)
End If

By the way, there's not much point checking for the existence of the folder and the file. If the file doesn't exist then it doesn't matter whether the folder exists because you're not using it anyway and if the file exists then you know for a fact that the folder exists too.

Quote:

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Originally Posted by jmcilhinney

By the way, there's not much point checking for the existence of the folder and the file. If the file doesn't exist then it doesn't matter whether the folder exists because you're not using it anyway and if the file exists then you know for a fact that the folder exists too.

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oh yeah...:D didn't think of that...