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POC#: How to open Windows Explorer windows with a number of files selected
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    copied!<p>In the Library of Windows Media Player you can select one or more music files. You can then right-click and in their context menu choose <em>Open File Location</em>. This will open up one windows explorer window for each directory that the files are in, and the files will be selected for you. </p> <p>So let's say we have a bunch of mp3 files in our library where three of them are these:</p> <ul> <li><em>Z:\Music\Thursday Blues\01. I wish it was friday.mp3</em></li> <li><em>Z:\Music\Counting Sheep\01. Sheep #1.mp3</em></li> <li><em>Z:\Music\Counting Sheep\02. Sheep #2.mp3</em></li> </ul> <p>If we select those three (in a view where all of them are visible) and do <em>Open File Location</em> then two explorer windows will pop up. One will be the <em>Z:\Music\Thursday Blues</em> folder with <em>01. I wish it was friday.mp3</em> selected, and the other one will be the *Z:\Music\Counting Sheep** folder with both <em>01. Sheep #1.mp3</em> and <em>02. Sheep #2.mp3</em> selected.</p> <p>How can I do this myself in C#? We have an application which is going to export data to various formats, for example CSV and Excel, and I would like to open up explorer windows with these files selected when they are created and ready to be viewed. Currently I just do <code>Process.Start(path)</code>, and this works but I would love to be able to highlight those particular files as well. Would make the files that were just created much more obvious.</p> <hr> <p>Windows Media Player does it so well... I want to do it too =/ Are there any Microsoft employees here that could figure out how it can be done? (A)</p>
 

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