What is the correct way to use ShellExecute() in C to open a .txt

Question

Alright so i need to open a .txt file that will be created in the same file as the program.

I would like to use ShellExecute(); to do this and i have done a lot of

Answer 1

The ShellExecute function syntax on MSDN:

HINSTANCE ShellExecute(
  _In_opt_ HWND    hwnd,
  _In_opt_ LPCTSTR lpOperation,
  _In_     LPCTSTR lpFile,
  _In_opt_ LPCTSTR lpParameters,
  _In_opt_ LPCTSTR lpDirectory,
  _In_     INT     nShowCmd
);

You can try like this. You could open "notepad" with parameter of your text file path ("c:\\debug.txt"):

ShellExecute(0,"open", "notepad", "c:\\debug.txt", NULL, SW_SHOW);