File Association on install

[Evan]

Hi.

My program, has file types that run
very well on my computer ( because I
put them there). But on other computers
the program wont run properly because
of this.
How can you make VB install wizard make
a associate to my EXE from a extention
like ".apd" or ".kp" ?

thankyou all in advance.

You need to create the keys to registry. You find a lot of help at here for registry.

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT is the place where they're located at.

Then some instructions:

- Create key .APD, default value is apdfile
- Create key apdfile, default value is the description of the file
- Create key DefaultIcon under apdfile, default is location of the icon
- Create key Shell under apdfile
- Create key Open under Shell, default value is Open with (program name)
- Create key Command under Open, default value is the location of the program file plus "%1"


Hope this helps you to beginning, more you can learn by searching registry with regedit yourself.

[Evan]

Marry.

Your always so helpfull!
Thanks alot, I was trying to
do what you said before you
gave me that message and It
wasnt working.. I didnt have the
default icon!

Thanks Again!