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How to get the application associated with a file extension
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David Taylor
Oct 7, 2009, 8:02:59 AM10/7/09
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My app stores file names in a table on a server database. A MS Access front
end mdb tries to open these files using application.followhyperlink
strFileName.
Recently this has failed for .pdf files. But this is not the problem I wish
to address here (although suggestions and/or solutions are welcome).
I wish to bypass this error by using the shell function.
My question is how to retrieve the name of the program that is registered to
run a particular file extension (.pdf in this instance) from the registry on
the client computers.
end mdb tries to open these files using application.followhyperlink
strFileName.
Recently this has failed for .pdf files. But this is not the problem I wish
to address here (although suggestions and/or solutions are welcome).
I wish to bypass this error by using the shell function.
My question is how to retrieve the name of the program that is registered to
run a particular file extension (.pdf in this instance) from the registry on
the client computers.
Thanks
DT
Karl E. Peterson
Oct 7, 2009, 2:39:17 PM10/7/09
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You can get the launch command for any associated verb with AssocQueryString.
See http://vb.mvps.org/samples/Assoc for drop-in ready code.
Requires IE5+ on NT4/9x systems.
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