Problem: We normally face so many difficulties in having the spaces inside our directory paths and our code gets failed because of this.
Solution: To target this, simple and easy way to attack the problem is use of kernel.dll for getting the windows help.
Windows exposes the kernel.dll for performing many actions and this is one of them
Declare this at the top
[DllImport(“kernel32.dll”, CharSet = CharSet.Auto)]
public static extern int GetShortPathName(
[MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.LPTStr)]
string path,
[MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.LPTStr)]
StringBuilder shortPath,
int shortPathLength
);
Calling:
//Getting the Shortpath
StringBuilder shortPath = new StringBuilder();
GetShortPathName(InstallDir, shortPath, shortPath.Capacity);//shortPath holds the shortest path
check it out…
More details can be found in Windows SDK
http://www.andreavb.com/API_KERNEL32.html