Default icon for custom file using C#

[Maneesh]

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

 

[Kevin Spencer]

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

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HTH,

Kevin Spencer
Microsoft MVP
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[Maneesh]

Thanks Kevin.

- 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.