Default Image Viewer VB.NET

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I have created a windows forms project and I created an image viewer with different functions. Now I want to know how to make my program the default windows image viewer. I tried to right click an image file, then I selected Open with, I selected my program but it didn't work. It just opened my program.

Posted 28-Sep-12 3:10am

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Dave Kreskowiak · Answer 1 · 2012-09-28T04:02:00

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You problably didn't include code in your app to parse command line arguments. Environment.GetCommandLineArgs[^]

Posted 28-Sep-12 4:02am

Dave Kreskowiak

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fjdiewornncalwe 28-Sep-12 10:32am

+5. Absolutely.

AfterShave 28-Sep-12 14:48pm

Sorry,I don't know to use the code?

Dave Kreskowiak 28-Sep-12 16:15pm

That's why you read the documentation so you can figure out how to use the code.