Associating file types and linking icon with it

[Winston]

Hey guys i would like to know and get a example of how to

 

associate a file with ur program and link that file to a icon and also wen that file is double clicked it will open the program and do let the program take over

[aewarnick]

look up file association on the net. I downloaded a source file from somewhere with classes that do it. It is just registry edits.

[a_jam_sandwich]

When you create you deployment you can do all the above from (File Types) when creating your setup file.

 

Andy

[mutant]

Also remeber that you will have to accept the file name that your program will open as a command line argument. Use this property for retrieving the arguments:

System.Environment.CommandLine

[Simon]

Deployment in .NET is really powerful. It takes a while to find all the tools (the help library is rather complicated :( ).

 

Dev studio also has an icon editor :)

that's cool, i never thought they'd think about that.

 

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SiMoN.

[Winston]

ive looked quite a few places

 

 

 

http://www.vb2themax.com/Item.asp?PageID=CodeBank&Cat=1401&ID=659

 

 

 

thats the closest i got

 

but i need to add an icon too

 

could sum 1 help me with modifying that function so that i can allocate the icon as well

 

thanks

 

btw i did it in setup and deploy already but i want to re assure every startup to re-associate

[Simon]

Any good ideas on how to keep track of reckord number with sequential acces?

 

The advantages of sequential is that it provides carriage return-linefeed which random acces does not.

 

Is there a simple way of keeping track of reckord with seqential or is there a way of using carriage return-linefeed with random?