Newsgroups : Borland : borland.public.delphi.nativeapi.win32 : 2008 Feb : Associate extension with application using Vista
| Subject: | Associate extension with application using Vista |
| Posted by: | "Michael Fritz" (spam_athome@yahoo.de) |
| Date: | Mon, 18 Feb 2008 09:37:20 |
Hi,
I wonder if anyone has got experience on how to associate a file extension
with an application under Vista.
So far I'm using this coding:
with TRegistry.Create(KEY_READ or KEY_WRITE) do
begin
RootKey := HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT;
OpenKey('.' + PREFIX, True);
WriteString('',PREFIX + 'File');
CloseKey;
OpenKey(PREFIX + 'File',True);
WriteString('',DESCRIPTION);
OpenKey(PREFIX + 'File\DefaultIcon',True);
WriteString('',sExe + ',0');
CloseKey;
OpenKey(PREFIX + 'File\Shell\Open\Command',True);
WriteString('',sExe + ' "%1"');
CloseKey;
Free;
end;
However this requires to write to HKCR and I assume this needs
administrative rights in Vista.
Of course an elevated setup program (Inno Setup, btw) does this already but
if for any reasons this association is dropped I would like to repair it
from within my application.
Any hints are welcome on how to do this using Vista.
--
cu,
Michael