File Associations

[VBGuyUsingVC]

Does anyone know how to get a list of the registered file formats. I want to be able to do something similar to the way Windows displays the file types. (You know, a windows comes up listing all the executable titles and associated extensions with them.) . Is this simply a painful registry look up or can I use some APIs. Any help would be appreciated.

 

[IonelBurtan]

In the registry you mast have to create the entries:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.{Your extension}\{DefaultValue}
then

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\{DefaultValue}\DefaultIcon
(for the explorer icon)
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.{YourExtension}\Shell\Open\Command
Value = "YourProgram.exe %1"


For example:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.ocx\ocxfile
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.ocxfile\DefaultIcon
Value=%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-154


Also look for API and MFC function RegisterFileTypes()

HTH,

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