Open file/folder location in Windows Explorer

[Ajay_MV]

There has been always the need of opening the file/folder location in windows explorer, but I guess every application uses the trick of doing it through "System Exec.vi" or "Open URL" or Win32 API.  There is no LabVIEW native function to directly open folder/files in windows explorer directly.

Below threads discusses various methods to achieve this...

http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW/Use-LabVIEW-to-open-Windows-Explorer-to-a-certain-directory/td-p/898...

https://lavag.org/topic/11395-opening-windows-explorer-to-a-specific-directory/

https://lavag.org/topic/18444-open-windows-folder/

https://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-14633

https://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-22461

It would be nice if LabVIEW comes with some native function like below

 

[Ajay_MV]

Apologize me.  My intention was to put his up in LabVIEW Idea Exchange, but due to some errors it ended up here.

Idea Exchange link is below.

http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW-Idea-Exchange/Open-file-folder-location-in-Windows-Explorer/idi-p/32...