C＃Webbrowser导航到本地文件。 路径中的空格

Question

I'm using webbrowser control in C# application to display different local files, not necessarily web pages but also images and pdf.files.

I noticed that it works:

string path = "C:\MyDirectory\file.png";   
webBrowser1.Navigate(path,false); 

but if there are spaces in directories names it fails:

string path = "C:\My Directory\file.png";   
webBrowser1.Navigate(path,false);     

What is the trick to display such files correctly in webbrowser control?

Answer 1

Prefix your string with @ for local and UNC paths.

string localpath = @"drive:\Some Folder\file with spaces.extension";
string uncPath = @"\\network machine\Resources\Some Resource.extension";

Answer 2

Hi sorry I can't post a comment without more rep but if I understand correctly, the WebBrowser class is basically like a IE wrapper, and so URLs with spaces or special characters in need to be encoded like so:

string path = System.Uri.EscapeDataString(url)

So that it will replace spaces with %20 etc and WebBrowser should know where to go.

Checkout the docs for EscapeDataString