Activating a program from a file extension

[michael_green]

In my application, users display a list of metadata files associated with the work they are doing. The files could be of any type - Word docs, Excel spreadsheets, PDFs, plain text, etc. I want them to be able to select a file from the list and have the appropriate program open it. I presume I need to get the file extension and do some sort of search through the registry but my attempts so far have failed. Any suggestions gratefully received.

With many thanks in advance,
Mike

[ArturGuzik]

Quoting - michaelgreen

In my application, users display a list of metadata files associated with the work they are doing. The files could be of any type - Word docs, Excel spreadsheets, PDFs, plain text, etc. I want them to be able to select a file from the list and have the appropriate program open it. I presume I need to get the file extension and do some sort of search through the registry but my attempts so far have failed. Any suggestions gratefully received.

With many thanks in advance,
Mike

Hi Mike,

what about using ShellExecute (here an example and here an update and error codes) for that?

A.

[michael_green]

Quoting - ArturGuzik

Hi Mike,

what about using ShellExecute (here an example and here an update and error codes) for that?

A.

Many thanks - that was so easy.
Mike