I have been trying to get a solution to this problem for quite sometime
now.

I produce custom files in my Windows Application (binary serialization
of some objects) with some extention, say "file.abc"

Now I want a default icon to be assigned to this file (like in Office,
the Excel/Word/etc. icon is assigned to appropriate extentions); so
that when somebody double clicks on the file, my application is started
with this file as a parameter, which I catch in Main().

Is there any elegant way of doing this in C# - maybe some setting I
have to include when created the Setup for the application, or maybe
some API I have to use in C# when creating this file.

Thanks in advance.

- Maneesh

This can be done in a Setup/Deployment Project in Visual Studio, using the
"File Types" Window of the project.

--
HTH,

Kevin Spencer
Microsoft MVP
Bit Player
http://unclechutney.blogspot.com

Where there's a Will, there's a William.

"Maneesh" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>I have been trying to get a solution to this problem for quite sometime
> now.
>
> I produce custom files in my Windows Application (binary serialization
> of some objects) with some extention, say "file.abc"
>
> Now I want a default icon to be assigned to this file (like in Office,
> the Excel/Word/etc. icon is assigned to appropriate extentions); so
> that when somebody double clicks on the file, my application is started
> with this file as a parameter, which I catch in Main().
>
> Is there any elegant way of doing this in C# - maybe some setting I
> have to include when created the Setup for the application, or maybe
> some API I have to use in C# when creating this file.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> - Maneesh
>

Thanks Kevin.

- Maneesh

Kevin Spencer wrote:
> This can be done in a Setup/Deployment Project in Visual Studio, using the
> "File Types" Window of the project.
>
> --
> HTH,
>
> Kevin Spencer
> Microsoft MVP
> Bit Player
> http://unclechutney.blogspot.com
>
> Where there's a Will, there's a William.
>
> "Maneesh" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> >I have been trying to get a solution to this problem for quite sometime
> > now.
> >
> > I produce custom files in my Windows Application (binary serialization
> > of some objects) with some extention, say "file.abc"
> >
> > Now I want a default icon to be assigned to this file (like in Office,
> > the Excel/Word/etc. icon is assigned to appropriate extentions); so
> > that when somebody double clicks on the file, my application is started
> > with this file as a parameter, which I catch in Main().
> >
> > Is there any elegant way of doing this in C# - maybe some setting I
> > have to include when created the Setup for the application, or maybe
> > some API I have to use in C# when creating this file.
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > - Maneesh
> >