open my vb program from explorer

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I have set a file extension to open my vb program when I click from Windows Explorer.
How do I get my Program to recognize and load the file?
Tom..

Posted 13-Nov-13 6:49am

Tom Moody

Updated 13-Nov-13 6:55am

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 13-Nov-13 12:50pm

Probably you did not "set" it yet. And how it that related to Javascript?
—SA

Tom Moody 13-Nov-13 12:52pm

Set what?

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 13-Nov-13 13:04pm

This is your word. Look at your own post...
—SA

joshrduncan2012 13-Nov-13 17:01pm

I'm not even sure this is even a programming question. What comes to mind is teaching Windows to recognize a particular file extension. Just food for thought.

joshrduncan2012 13-Nov-13 17:01pm

I'm not even sure this is even a programming question. What comes to mind is teaching Windows to recognize a particular file extension. Just food for thought.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 13-Nov-13 17:10pm

It might be not, but it's sometimes becomes a part of, say, software installation, or an application can register it's file type (so called "extension", which is not really an "extension"). And in such cases, this is a kind of programming topic. I'm also not 100% sure, until OS tells us exactly.
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OriginalGriff 13-Nov-13 14:07pm

This is not a good question - we cannot work out from that little what you are trying to do.
Remember that we can't see your screen, access your HDD, or read your mind.
Perhaps if you share the code you used to "set a file extension" it would help?
Use the "Improve question" widget to edit your question and provide better information.

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Thanks Mike.... That is exactly what i needed..
Thanks again ..tom

Posted 15-Nov-13 4:31am

Tom Moody

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Mike Meinz · Accepted Answer · 2013-11-13T12:20:00

Assuming that you have properly setup your unique file extension to be associated with your program's exe, the following paragraph will help you determine how to retrieve the filename in your program. Your program should be compiled in Release mode and your program should be in the same directory structure and have the same name as the full path name that you used when you setup the association between your unique extension and your program.

Your program can retrieve its commandline value using Environment.CommandLine.
After retrieving the commandline from Environment.CommandLine, parse the commandline to get the filename.

1. The first value in the commandline is the full path name of your program.
2. The second value in the commandline is the name of the file that you double-clicked on in Explorer.