Problem firing shortcut

[tmullins]

New to .net programming and running into an issue. Trying to create a simple command to fire my Civil 3D desktop shortcut. This line works on any shortcut (.lnk file) except AutoCAD shortcuts.

Process.Start("C:\shortcuts\AutoCAD Civil 3d 2012 Imperial.lnk")

I receive the error:

Win32Exception was unhandled

The system cannot find the file specified

Which doesn't make a lot of sense to me since it will run any shortcut in that folder, and yes that is the name of the Civil 3D shortcut. Start>Run fires the shortcut just fine.

What is it not finding? Is there an issue with the Target or the Start In: properties in the shortcut file? It has the default icon properties from the install.

I have tried several solutions offered online none of which work (shell or shellexecute). The problem doesn't appear to be simply firing a .lnk file since all others work.

Thanks for any advice.

[Alexander.Rivilis]

Maybe:

Process.Start("C:\\shortcuts\\AutoCAD Civil 3d 2012 Imperial.lnk")

 or:

Process.Start(@"C:\shortcuts\AutoCAD Civil 3d 2012 Imperial.lnk")

 ?

[tmullins]

Thanks for the suggestion but no luck.

I almost have it but when I use the code below the software fires, but I get a dialog pop up that says "Cannot find the specified drawing file. Please verify that the file exists." I can OK it and move on but I have no idea what is causing that.

System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("C:\Program Files\Autodesk\AutoCAD Civil 3D 2012\acad.exe", arguments:=("/ld C:\Program Files\Autodesk\AutoCAD Civil 3D 2012\AecBase.dbx""/p C:\Profile Folder\C3D201264.arg"))

[Alexander.Rivilis]

It look like C:\Program Files\Autodesk\AutoCAD Civil 3D 2012\AecBase.dbx have to be in double-quote because this line has spaces.

[tmullins]

Looks like that may have did it. Will let you know for sure. Thanks!

What I am trying to do is just a simple form to fire AutoCAD using various profiles - looks like I might be able to get rid of the aecbase.dbx load anyway - just copied it from the default icon.

[Alexander.Rivilis]

The first step is to set WorkingDirectory. In this case, no necessary to set the full path to aecbase.dbx