EnableShellOpen...

Hi,

I don't want to use EnableShellOpen and RegisterShellFileTypes() in my program. This is because I want my saved document to have a different icon from my program. But when I do not use this two functions, and manually set the entries in the registry, my saved document changes to the icon I want, but when I double-click my saved document in the Windows Explorer, my program is executed but does not open my saved document. Then after I close my program, it is the only time that a message box will be diplayed asying that the filename cannot be found or one of its components, check the path and filename is correct. Is there other things I need to do so that I can duplicate the functionalities that EnableShellOpen() and RegisterShellFileTypes() do, but without using them, aside from the entries in the registry? There's this thing with shipping a .reg file together with my program. But I don't know how to make one. Can you help me with this other alternative?

Thank you very much.

when double clicking in explorer your program is started with command line argument for opening the document file. This is read out in processcmdline or something like that to a commandlineinfo structure. When you don't use EnableShellOpen the document will not be opened automatically.
I recommend tracing through the Command line parsing code, see if you only need to set a flag to automatically open document or use the command line information yourself to open it.

About the MsgBox at the end of your program execution, i don't know, may be a return value to explorer, so the message box created by explorer...

hope this helps
chris

chrislaw