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File Assocation
By James Crowley, published on 14 Jul 2001
James first started this website when learning Visual Basic back in 1999 whilst studying his GCSEs. The site grew steadily over the years while being run as a hobby - to a regular monthly audience ...
James first started this website when learning Visual Basic back in 1999 whilst studying his GCSEs. The site grew steadily over the years while being run as a hobby - to a regular monthly audience ...
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- Introduction
- File Associaton
- Command Line Parameters
- Command Line Parameters And MDI Applications
Command Line Parameters
You will have noticed that so far your program does not open the file. Explorer passes the file path to your program when it starts, and you can access this through the Command$ function.
Private Sub Form_Load()
'// check command line argument:
If Command$ <> Empty Then
'// we have a file to open
OpenFile Command$ '// call your
openfile procedure
End If
End Sub
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Hi Can you please also tell how to do it in .Net using VB.Net or C# ...
This looks like it could be the answer to my problem, but in case i stuff it up somehow could you tell me how to reverse the changes that are made to the registry by this code please?
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That's your procedure that does whatever when its been given a filename (ie loading the file into a textbox or something)
The code is working fine, except for the OpenFile bit.
The comment says to call your openfile procedure.
What is the OpenFile command?
In using implimens this process into an application, I noticed the following line:
ret = RegSetValue&(lphKey, "shellopencommand", REGSZ, sKeyValue, MAXPATH)
did not properly register the association. I am using Windows 98 and had to change the above line to:
ret = RegSetValue&(lphKey, "shell\open\command", REGSZ, sKeyValue, MAXPATH)
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