Opening Local Files with Javascript or C#

06-19-2009 3:25 PM |

I am having problems opening Office 2003 (xls, doc, and ppt extensions) and 2007 files (xlsx, docx, pptx extensions) using Javascript.  The following code works for non-Office files and html pages.  It works when running on localhost or a remote server, but if you are testing on the hard drive or usb drive, it doesn't. Any suggestions?  Is there a way to have them open the files?

        function gotoPage(page) {
            window.open(page);
        }

        function gotoPage2(page) {
            window.location = page;
        }

Or is it possible to open the file in the Silverlight C# backend?