VS 2008 Custom File Association Actions
Jun 3, 2010
ive got a custom archive type, which i have all the associations set to me application for, when the users double clicks these files i want them to auto import, but im a little stuck on my next step.[code]the tomove string would need to point at the file which was double clicked/ran, and the textbox1.text replaced with the file name of the file that was ran.[code]And the code runs, but i need to replace the "test" (previously it was textbox1.text) withthe name of the file which was ran, is that possible?
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Dec 19, 2010
know how to create a custom file association ( a custom extension ) in VB .Net and how to open it on the application
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Dec 19, 2009
Ok, I'm trying to tackle this topic again. I have searched for setting file associations in the registry, and I only find references to adding the association the ClassesRoot, which, in Vista 64, throws an Access Denied exception.I would like to know if it is possible to set the association somewhere other than classesroot in the registry. Or, if it must be set in HKCR, then the proper way to temporarily elevate the application to perform the registry change.
What should happen is user clicks a button in my program to add the file associations, a Vista security dialog pops up prompting the user to confirm the operation or enter administrative username and password, user confirms, application sets the file associations, then drops back down to regular security.
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Jul 20, 2009
I'm having a slight problem getting my program to load a save file when double clicking the save file.I'm using the Command$() to get the command line argument. I can open a save file by dragging it onto the exe. But not by double clicking the save file (after it's associated with the exe).I though dragging and dropping a file on a program and double clicking the file would open it in the same way, but I guess not.So in short how does file association work and how do I get the file path set to a var when the program loads.
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Jun 10, 2010
after downloading an emulator for the gameboy advance, all my icons hav turned to the adobe logo. When I double click on them, all that happens is the abobe reader comes up and says it can't open it. The only way I have found to open them is right clicking on them and hitting properties and clicking on shortcut ---> open file location and opening it from there.However I would like to open it regularly and I am not very computer savvy but I believe it has to due with file association.
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Nov 23, 2009
I am trying to create a file association in my program, which requires me to create some keys in the registry. However, when I try to create the keys, I get a System.UnauthorizedAccessException.
I have tried searching for a solution, and the only thing I can find is various examples of passing a boolean value to request write access for the "OpenSubKey" method. My problem currently is not opening the key, it's creating it. I have tried several of the different overloads to no avail.
I am guessing that I will need to temporarily elevate the access of my app to create the registry key. What I don't want to do is permanently raise the access of my app just to accomodate this one, small function, which should only really be needed by the user one time in order to create the file association.
Here is my code in progress:
Private Sub chkSOPAssociation_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles chkSOPAssociation.Click
If chkSOPAssociation.Checked = True Then
[Code]....
I have a checkbox on my form. When the user clicks it, it sets the file association if the checkbox is checked, or else it deletes the association if the checkbox is unchecked.
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Jul 2, 2009
I'm trying to use Adobe's command line parameters to launch a PDF file with a user's search term passed in automatically. Unfortunately, Adobe's syntax for this command requires me to start Acrobat.exe (or AcroRdr32.exe) and pass in parameters, including the PDF file name.I have users that might have any version of Adobe Acrobat from 5.0 up, or they might be using Adobe Reader version 5.0 and up. I know when I double-click a PDF file, Windows has an association with that file that points to wherever Acrobat.exe (etc...) is installed to launch the program. How can I get access to that information?I've looked in the registry at"HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT.pdf", but don't see much in there that would lead me to "c:Program FilesAdobeAcrobat 8.0Acrobat.exe" or wherever the program is installed. Does anyone know how I can access this information?
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May 3, 2012
I have a tab-based application that handles multiple documents. It is designed such that the user cannot run multiple instances of application. Furthermore, the user can double-click on a document file, and the application will launch itself and open it.[code]...
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Oct 30, 2009
I am trying to remove the File Association I created in the Project properties tab 'Publish'/ 'Options'.I have tried deleting all the entries but is won't let me 'OK".Here is a picture of the evil dialogbox.
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Oct 27, 2011
[ First off, this is not really a VB question -- it's a Windows 7 question, but when I posted it on a forum for Windows, a Windows "Support Engineer" suggested that I post it here. So here goes ... ]I have an old custom program (written in VB6) that opens a custom file type, but requires a qualifier in the command prior to the file name, similar to this:
myprogram.exe /i "myfile.seo"
The "/i" stands for "input file".
Back in Windows XP, I was able to make some very detailed changes to the file association for the ".SEO" file type, so that the "Open" action could contain this command:
myprogram.exe /i "%1"
The result was that I could click on any .SEO file and the filename would be substituted into the above command, in place of the %1. This did exactly what I needed.I have been unable to find a way to insert the command-qualifier "/i" into the file association in Windows 7.For a specific .SEO file, I can create a .BAT file, but that's a very limited 'solution'.
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Nov 2, 2011
I want to create my own extension without changing my registry file. I have a VB.NET project and I firstly want to create my own extension like ".abc" afterwards if there is any file like xxxxxx.abc when a person try to open this file I want windows to startup my project and open that file.
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Jun 19, 2010
I have a very simple HTML reader for reading offline documents, and works very well when open using the menu. What do I need to do to get the reader to display the document I selected using by doing a double-click on the document name? The application will load, but the WebBrowser control stays blank. There's not a lot of code in the program so I will list it below.
Dim fName As String
Private Sub OpenToolStripMenu_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles OpenToolStripMenu.Click
OpenFileDialog1.Filter = "HTML Files|*.html"
OpenFileDialog1.FilterIndex = 1
[Code] .....
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Jul 24, 2010
I have an application that has a tabcontrol to handle multiple documents, just like Notepad++. And I also have file association working correctly with it.All I want to do is to make it open the double-clicked file onto a new "codetab" instead of creating a new instance of the program just to open a file.
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Jan 29, 2010
I want in my VB application launching my Browser (or displaying in a WebBroser Control) a Website. But my php website has an authentification page, so i wish my vb code write the login, the password, and press enter (or click onto an image that run an Ajax function).
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Mar 21, 2009
I'm a bit of a n0ob to all this and I'm having trouble finding good resources on the net.What I'm trying to do is define a one-to-many relationship between two entities. I'm using the GUI tool in Visual Studio - and have created the tables in Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio.Basically, I have two tables....a 'Users' table and a 'Sites' table. A single user can have many sites associated with it.Users has a primary key of 'UID' and the Sites table as a primary key of 'Site_ID'.Sites also has a column 'UID' that should indicate which user that site is associated with.Anyway - it sounded pretty simple; but no matter what I attempt to do, I can't seem to get it to work. Mostly, I get validation errors - sometimes run-time errors, or sometimes, no actual data even though there should sites that match the UID of the user.I am able to connect and write LINQ against my Users table/pull down User objects - but can't seem to get it to know that the Sites are associated with the user.In the GUI - if I go to 'Add Association' and create a 1 to many link between Accounts and Sites - and Validate - I get an error saying, "Error1Error 11008: Association 'AccountsSites' is not mapped."
It seems like, when I try to make an association, it wants to link the 'Keys' of each entity.But U_ID and SITE_ID are the keys and, obviously, shouldn't match.If I click on the line it created in the GUI and I go to 'Table Mapping' I can see that it is trying to match those keys. Since I want it to match user_ids my first thought is to just make the U_ID the entity Key in the Sites entity but, of course, that's wrong because it would no longer allow a 1 to many relationship.
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Feb 3, 2011
I have a really modular application in which modules interact with each other for many, many tasks. Lately I have been making some changes to fix some bugs and some processes are now taking longer (not making the application unusable though).I now want to log the times it takes to perform each action, also taking into account interactions with other objects, to identify where is it taking long. This logging code would most likely be temporary. So, the question is: How can I write all these actions's latencies (or timeStarted and TimeEnded perhaps) to a single file from all the objects?
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Jun 13, 2010
Before I start, I'm not 100% sure this is the right place to ask. Okey, so I'm making my own Notepad, which will contain newer features. (Private use only though) One of them being tab control.
Now I want the program to be in the "Open With..." menus for all files, so I can choose myself.
And if the program is already running when user opens a new file, I want the text to appear in a new tab, instead of a new window of the program.
I tryed to be straight forward, and keep it short. So if you need more info, fell free to ask.
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Mar 13, 2011
I have tried to do this before with a custom file type for a text editor. I barely got it to work... and now I can't even find those files. Now I just want for when I make my NSIS Setup that the file association can allow the mp3 player to play the files when the file itself is double clicked.
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Mar 2, 2009
I am using Process.Start(fileName) to let Windows open certain files outside of my application with their 'default application'.If "fileName" for example is a ".txt" file, it opens the file in Notepad. If it is a folder, it opens windows explorer with that folder selected.This all seems to work well, except when the user enters a file that has no application 'linked' to it.(a file that has no file associations)I have wrapped the Process. Start() in a Try/Catch block so that any errors are caught and displayed.When I now open a file without any file associations (windows does not know with which application to open it) it tells me that it cannot find any application to open it with. (The exact error is in dutch so I don't think that's going to be much help here, but I think it's clear what's happening, no?)What I would like to happen in this case is that the windows "Open With" dialog comes up, asking the user to select an application to open the file with. Now it just displays the error message and continues, making it impossible for the user to open the file unless he browses to the file manually and sets up the file association, something many users probably don't know how to do.
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Oct 27, 2009
So Im doing this calculator and i got everything working well. The only thing Im having trouble with is getting it to allow multiple actions before assignment. What i mean by that is . Instead all i can do is (number * number=) does not let me do another before assigningCalculator
Public Class Form1
Dim abp As Boolean
Dim number1 As Double
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Apr 5, 2009
I have roughly 20 text boxes on my form,When you press tab, it naturally selects all text in the box (highlighted in blue), so you can press any key, and it replaces it with that,That result is what I want, unfortunately, if you click into the text box, and tab back to it, it no longer selects all the text.I'm wondering how I can detect the tab event properly,I've tried adding a 'KeyDown' event to each text box, and then selecting the text, but the sub never runs, also tried detecting the tab event in my Main Form, thinking that perhaps the parent handles it and will receive that event, but.. No.I've thought of using an event like 'Activated' however, it will also run when the mouse is clicked.
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Oct 17, 2009
Guys,this is my first day at the forum,and my second thread. Can someone explain me how can i make an axshockwaveflashobject2 to copy what happens at axshockwaveflashobject1 like a picture or video. I have a tabed trainer and i want to see my stats in game at the second tab. i have the hack menu on a toolstrip,but i have at the tab 2 flash1.get variables to textboxes,but i can't see what's happening at the flash1,and i may lose the level by falling in the sea. The code should make something like a mirror from flash1 to flash2 at the other tab.
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Dec 16, 2009
I'm running several different automated processes and when I get done with them, I show the results in a form with various controls.
In this form, I use Panels, Labels, TextBoxes, and TreeViews, and ListViews to display a wealth of information.
When the automation part is done, I want to be able to log this info and save that log file on the User's PC.
I thought it would be best to make a custom file extension and then hash it with MD5.
I'm pretty sure I can get all of that done. The problem is that I'm not sure how I would load that info back into the application.
Since the log files will appear on a seperate form, I can't just load the data back into the original controls.
Would it be best to create a blank template of controls and then load the data into those controls? Or is there a way to save content "as is", controls and all?
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Oct 26, 2009
OK, for those that saw my previous one, this one is different than that, much different.The program I'm making is basically an offline, open source Po, which will allow for people to create their own Databases of Pon, even custom ones, without any hex editing as long as they use the program to create the files. developing a custom format for my program, the ".pid" format, which stands for "Pokex Information Data-File". Yes, I know it's for Poon, but it's a program I promised to end with, and I'm also kinda doing this for myself (Still being a fan of the game series.)w, the file format is done something like this:
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Oct 13, 2009
i just made a small notepad type program. The function for opening and saving are working perfectly but i want it so that i could save the ".txt" as my own filetype lets say ".tox" or something.
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Oct 20, 2009
The file format has already been explained to me, and I can easily view it in notepad to understand it. It's basically a text file with a fancy extension and what not. The only problem is that I need to read it and pull a certain span of data from it.Here's the basic format:
8200
3251
1
[code].....
This is the first 10 lines, which is useless data for me. However, right after the first 10 lines, is a span of an unknown quantity of lines that I do need that are formatted like so:grassC:Program FilesMicrosoft GamesHalo Custom itiondatalevelsestlood_creekitmapslood_creek groundThe first line is the name of a bitmap assigned to the ID, while the second line is the path to the bitmap.Finally, after the unknown span of lines, there are two lines that go in this order:01Which I can safely assume at this point that the list no longer needs to be read.What I need to do is be able to open this file, skip over the first 10 lines which are completely useless, and then pull out the unknown gap of lines, and then stop reading when the line is '0', or at the end of the list.
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Sep 6, 2009
But thing is I renamed this player to myplayer.mo so will it work like a normal exe or is that not duable ( I know u can do this in VB6 ) but not sure how its done in VB 2008
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Aug 15, 2010
i am using VB 2008 and i was wondering if it was possible to have my program create and read a custom file type?
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May 31, 2010
i have 8 new custom file types which go with my app, i can set them to open with me app easily using this code on a button:[code]But im a little stuck on what to change in that, ive made certain all my new extensions are unique and i have all my icons for each new file type made, i just need to be able to set them.
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Nov 26, 2011
Im currently developing a custom logging component, that we will deploy with all our applications, windows services, webapps, windows apps etc. I have a few questions of various nature. The component is a single signed dll file:
1) Which is the "safest" way to get the current directory? For example, in the config file, in the config section I have a property "logpath". The application will read this and write a log file depending in what they write:
c:myapplog (it will write a log here, create whatever folders it need) /Log (directly under the installed app directory, like c:program filesmyappLog) Log (same as above) I need something that work with both windows and web apps, for webapps it will log under the virtual directory of the aspnet app.
2) For exception handling, if nothing special is happening, like in the DAL, I get a sql server exception, is there any point in using
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