How Do I Get The Application Name From The Default Value In Registry/Localmachine/Software/Classes/.Docx/Shell/Open/Command

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i would need to know the most effective way get the name of the application from the Registry/LocalMachine/Software/Classes/.docx/shell/Open/Command . for example from this

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office15\POWERPNT.EXE" "%1" /ou "%u"

i would need only the 'POWERPNT.EXE'. substring and replace is not effective as the value inside appears differently. for example

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office15\EXCEL.EXE" /dde
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Skype\Phone\Skype.exe" "/uri:%l"

Posted 2-Dec-14 16:14pm

zen.liu87

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BillWoodruff 2-Dec-14 23:05pm

Why is it you need to get the name of the Application from the registry ? Assuming you have some kind of data/string that determines what you want to search for: where did that data/string come from: what format is it in ?

zen.liu87 3-Dec-14 3:27am

the intention of my method is to find out the program being used to open (string) associated file type (.docx, .xlsx . pdf etc) and then using the Process.Start("EXCEL.EXE", fileURL) to open a file from a SharePoint DocumentLibrary

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