I want to get information about the application that is registered with Windows for handling a particular file extension. In the application I'm developing, users can attach different files which they want to view later on demand. I don't know in advance which type of files they might attach. So, I want to get infromation from Windows about the application registered for handling a particular type of file. Once I get this information, I'll be starting that application with instructions to open the file the user is interested in.

I guess this can be done thru Windows API.

Any ideas?



ejan

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ejan

I am thinking that the registry will be helpful here. This link shows how to create those associations. This will offer good clues as to how you might discover them in a program.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...file_types.asp

Also, that entire document tree is about extending the Windows shell, which is pretty much what you seem to be doing.

Brandon

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