C Program to Run Applications to Open a File in Windows

In this post, we will see how to run an executable to open a file. This will tell you open a file with specified application. This can be used like the open with option in operating systems. To open a file, most applications, are launched with the path to the file as command line argument (command line parameter). The following c program will open paint with a command-line argument. mspaint command opens paint. Or you can use "C:\\Windows\\System 32\\mspaint.exe". The exepected command-line argument to paint is the path to an image file. Then the paint application opens that file as image if possible.

#include
void main()
{
system("C:\\Windows\\System32\\mspaint.exe \"C:\\Users\\Shareef\\Desktop\\flower.jpg\"");
}

The above c program will open the image flower.jpg using paint application in Windows