Re: [WiX-users] Associating Icons to File Types
Follow the directions at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa969376.aspx, http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa969377.aspx, and optionally http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa969375.aspx. Links are dead I am afraid http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms123402.aspx -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Associating-Icons-to-File-Types-tf4355421.html#a13571157 Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/ ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Associating Icons to File Types
Thanks for all the help... much appreciated. From: James Finnigan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 03, 2007 5:17 PM To: James Finnigan [MSFT]; Rob Mensching; Dan Beall; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: Associating Icons to File Types Follow the directions at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa969376.aspx, http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa969377.aspx, and optionally http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa969375.aspx. Make sure you populate OpenWithProgids so that your registration isn't. A shellexecute with any file path will do launch it with the association program. The first two are just a set of best practices and an example scenario following them. The third is for set user defaults. This allows users to set your application as default from the windows UI, (or yours), and is capable of updating the userchoice registry key that overrides the regular registration mechanisms. I'm happy to answer any questions that you may have in this space as I've been looking at it a lot lately. (Also, the documentation is a little wrong - MSDN has been notified but this was only brought up yesterday. Dashes in file extensions are very much allowed, and it doesn't mention that extension characters need to be kept in the ASCII range (so no fancy Unicode characters). Also, don't register a long and short file extension - just register the long file extension.) HTH, James From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rob Mensching Sent: Monday, September 03, 2007 2:05 PM To: Dan Beall; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Associating Icons to File Types You want an Extension and possibly a ProgId. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan Beall Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 09:34 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Associating Icons to File Types Can anybody point me to instructions for: (1) Associating an icon to a particular file type (2)Launching the application to which that file type is associated when the icon is double-clicked Thanks! Dan - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Associating Icons to File Types
You want an Extension and possibly a ProgId. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan Beall Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 09:34 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Associating Icons to File Types Can anybody point me to instructions for: (1) Associating an icon to a particular file type (2)Launching the application to which that file type is associated when the icon is double-clicked Thanks! Dan - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Associating Icons to File Types
Just create a few registry entries: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa969377.aspx From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan Beall Sent: 30 August 2007 17:34 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Associating Icons to File Types Can anybody point me to instructions for: (1) Associating an icon to a particular file type (2)Launching the application to which that file type is associated when the icon is double-clicked Thanks! Dan -- This message has been scanned for viruses by Sophos PureMessage. - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Associating Icons to File Types
Can anybody point me to instructions for: (1) Associating an icon to a particular file type (2)Launching the application to which that file type is associated when the icon is double-clicked Dan, Here is some example XML taken from one of my products (it's WiX 3.0, but should be adaptable for v2): Component Id=FileTypes.BSDL Guid=... File Id=bsdl.ico Name=BSDL.ico / RegistryValue Id=Reg.Extn.BSD Root=HKCR Key=.bsd Value=BSDLfile Type=string / RegistryKey Id=Reg.Class.BSDL Root=HKCR Key=BSDLfile Action=createAndRemoveOnUninstall RegistryValue Id=Reg.Class.BSDL.Value Value=BSDL File Type=string / RegistryValue Id=Reg.Class.BSDL.Icon Key=DefaultIcon Value=[#bsdl.ico],0 Type=string / /RegistryKey /Component I have my icon for the filetype in an icon file, but you could reference an exe or dll that you've installed instead. Regards, John - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
