invoking file association

Say I'm building an explorer type control and I want to implement 'double-clicking' a file. So I've got the filename, is there an API call to invoke the file association, or do I have to get the info from the registry myself? I've started trying to code this, and the association info is kept all over the place, so it gets quite involved and I'd rather not bother.

Thanks.

fpitch

use the ShellExecute API

That will execute any file with the associated program, look at MSDN (Online) for details.

Gerco.

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Here Is The Code

Public Declare Function ShellExecute Lib "shell32.dll" Alias "ShellExecuteA" (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal lpOperation As String, ByVal lpFile As String, ByVal lpParameters As String, ByVal lpDirectory As String, ByVal nShowCmd As Long) As Long

Public Const SW_SHOWNORMAL = 1

To Call This Method Type.

AppName="Notepad"
startdir="c:\"

retval = ShellExecute(0&, vbNullString, AppName, vbNullString, startdir, SW_SHOWNORMAL)

thanks all

works good