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Hi All,
I'm working on some stuff, wherein the user downloads the files from internet to his local machine. I'm able to catch the path of the folder where user wants to download the file from SaveAs prompt. Now my requirement is , i want to provide a link button or
a button on the web page and assign this is folder path dynamically so that when the user clicks on it, it should open the local system folder where he has downloaded the files.
string myDocspath
=Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.MyDocuments);
string windir
= Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("WINDIR");
System.Diagnostics.Process prc
= new System.Diagnostics.Process();
prc.StartInfo.FileName = windir + @"\explorer.exe";
prc.StartInfo.Arguments = myDocspath;
prc.Start();
Work fine with local system, if i host the application in IIS , the above code snippet wont work
Thanks in advance,
Suraj Kumar
Software Engineer

Hello,
local resources is disabled in all modern browsers due to security restrictions.
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