[3.0/LINQ] Opening Files?

[Eleven]

I never realized this would be such a hassle, and oddly enough, none of my books really helped me out on the matter.

What I did in VB was simply this

System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("\directory\file.bat")

And it worked.

I've been googling and flipping through pages, but have no idea on how to reproduce this in C#.

Can I please get some help?

Thanks in advance,
Eleven

[Atheist]

You'd do it the same way.
Altough, you will have to put an @ in front of the string path (or use double slashes //), or else itll recognize the slashes as escape sequences.

[Eleven]

odd, I tried that and it couldn't find the files.

The program is located in a root folder, and I am looking for a file in a subdirectory down. Here is what it looks like so far:

System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("@[email protected]");

File is located just before directory, it's here:

C:\...\File\Directory\File.bat

File.bat is what I'm trying to open. But I get an error saying it cannot find the file specified.

[Atheist]

oh, sorry for the confusion, what i ment was that you should place the @ infront of the entire string, like this:
System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(@"directory/file.bat")

[Eleven]

Ah okay, my fault then, thanks a lot for your help!

[penagate]

To clarify: Strings in C# can contain escape sequences. An example of an escape sequence is \n, which produces a newline character. VB doesn't support these, so backslash characters have no meaning in VB string literals.

To write a backslash in a C# string literal, you can either use the backslash escape sequence \\, or turn it into a verbatim string literal by prepending the @ character, as Atheist showed you. This disables all escape sequences in the literal (except for \", which is necessary for embedding double quote characters).