VS 2008 Vista - Set File Association?
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 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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May 30, 2009
i compile my form with the below code when i run it on vista work fine without any problem but when i try to run in on XP cant run... that happened with any XP machine.[code]when i run my exe to other Vista machines work fine... but on xp NO.
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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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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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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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Aug 31, 2009
Using VB6 to create a file and then open the file just created fails when run on a Vista client with Windows 2008 Server. The same code will work when run directly on the Windows 2008 Server or when using an XP client. If a Sleep 10000 is placed after the close, the program will work. What is the problem here? The code is as follows:
Option Explicit
Private Declare Function GetTempFileName Lib "kernel32" Alias "GetTempFileNameA" _
(ByVal lpszPath As String, ByVal lpPrefixString As String, ByVal wUnique As Long, _
[code].....
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Apr 11, 2009
I have a program that has been running well under both Windows XP and Vista. Recently I tried installing the software on a Vista x64 machine and the program keeps crashing at runtime. I have tried running in Windows XP compatability mode and other solutions but nothign works. If I run it on the machine under Virtual PC using Windows XP I have no problems. The only two clues I have are these 1)One of the error messages I got when the program crashed said "missing dll file" and 2) the error log viewer shows that the error involves kernel32.dll This problem feels like it is way out of my league ont face value.
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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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Oct 11, 2009
I am been working on an a small app that has a Forms.Webbrowser control that navigates to a Adobe Flash program. I have developed the app on Vista 32bit platform and have had no problems. I have sent the app to a couple of people to test out and one is using Vista 64bit and is running into a problem. I know the webbrowser control just uses the underlying base framework of IE. The problem on the 64 bit machine is when the site is navigated to it says that it needs to have Flash installed. When the user goes to Adobe's site it says they need to use a 32bit browser.
As stated on Adobe site here:[URL] the Flash player need to be in a 32 bit browser. What options do I have to be able fix this problem? Is there another control that I can use that would be the same in a 32bit platform and 64bit platform? Besides navigating to the Flash program, the browser also goes to standard web pages.
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Jan 27, 2010
I have just installed vista 64 bit on a new system and put visual studio 2008 on then tried opening an old project of mine. When the project loads it reads from a mdb file and just fills a few comboboxes but when i run it in vista it doesnt read it but in xp which i have on a laptop it does read it.
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Aug 6, 2009
I created one apllication with dll file. That dll files have all function in my application. when install my application that is no problem in Windows xp. But when im going to Vista that dll file is not register. how can i register my dll programatically to vista the user may be Administrator account or user account
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Nov 22, 2010
I've created a simple dll with VB.NET for a web application, which opens a SaveDialog and write some ASCII-signs to a txt-file. It is working fine in XP. But when I test this dll in Vista I can not save this file:When I try to save in the directory "My own files" I can see this file in the file dialog, but I can not see this file in the explorer. In other directories I get a permission error.I've red, thatI can give e.g. admin-permission to allow writing a file, but I can give this permission only to an exe-file.
I tried some tests with the filestream like below
Dim fs As FileStream = New FileStream(strCSVDateiName, FileMode.Create, FileAccess.Write, FileShare.ReadWrite)
[code].....
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Feb 19, 2009
windows service app I am developing to audit events in the Windows Security Event Log. I am using the EventLog class to read entries from the "Security" event log. I have set the log to raise events when an entry is written so I can parse the data. Here is where my problem comes in. If I run the service on Windows 2003 I can get all the data I need from each entry, but when installed on Server 2008 the EventLogEntry ".message" property comes back with useless data like this, "The description for Event ID '4738' in Source 'Microsoft-Windows-Security-Auditing' cannot be found." Under Server 2003 the message property has good data. Using the Event Log Viewer in Server 2008 I can see that it is rendering the correct data, but I am having a heak of a time doing the same. The "replacementStrings" property has the corresponding data that I need, but it appears to involve some other steps to get the data localized to the event provider, but I do not know how to do that.
I also checked the registry HKLMSystemCurrentControlSetServicesEventlogSecuritySecurity on both the 2003 servers and 2008 servers. They are identical execpt the 2003 has an entry the 2008 server does not:
String Type: GuidMessageFile
Value: %systemroot%system32NtMarta.dll
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Apr 19, 2011
how to calculate the association with a database, containing two tables the first table price, and the second table of the goods, and the program in the language of Visual Studio 2010 Professional, using the Access database or sql no matter, the question is: How do I make the program take values from the table price, and calculates the cost of living depending on the equation Stored in the database??
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Jul 26, 2009
I'm trying to copy a file that I made that contains license information to system32 directory. My problem is I get access denied. here is the code I'm using
Dim formatter As New BinaryFormatter
Dim fileWriteStream As Stream
fileWriteStream = New FileStream(My.Application.Info.DirectoryPath & "" &
[Code]....
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Oct 13, 2009
I have a program that writes unhandled exception detail to a log file stored in the same directory as the program itself. I am wondering how I can have keep the file in the same location, and not have to worry about a file write access. With Vistas User Access Control enabled, the file is not accessible unless the program is run as an administrator, which I don't need it to be for anything else. The file does not exist all of the time, it only exists after an error occurs. Users are encouraged to email the file to me and then delete the file. Thus the file should only exist if their is a error that the user has not emailed. I really want to keep it in the same directory as the program itself, or within a subdirectory of the programs directory, since the portable version is exactly the same program executable and I would like to keep it that way. I am not sure how to go about setting the file security, set it when I create the file if the file doesn't exist, prompting for Administrator privileges to create it with the security. I was also thinking that I could just set the entire folder containing the program executable when it is installed, and then it would be able to create the file without having to have administrator privileges.
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Aug 21, 2010
I'm making a cleaning program and one of the things it does is cleans the recycle bin. How do I do it for Xp, Vista, and 7? I'm on Visual Basic 2010. Also, how do I make it so that it automatically finds the username and uses it when the program deletes a folder. Right now I have it so that you need to enter your username in a textbox and then it uses that for the directories. I know it's something with SystemInformation.UserName.
[Code]...
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Jun 18, 2009
I have created a very basic program in VB that will run a batch file that writes a reg file to the registry (see code below). In XP it works fine with no problems. However, with vista it comes up with a security error and does not run the batch file. The error it says is:
[Code].....
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