openwith get Application name

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Hi All,
How do I get the Application name when user using explore openwith window and select an application to open the file.
For Example
When users right click a file in explore select openwith then open with window will appear from that select myapp.exe .
Then now is how from my c# application I get the Application name(ie application to which the file should open. here expected file name is myapp.exe).

Thanks in Advance.

Posted 19-Jun-11 23:27pm

jibin p.j

Updated 20-Jun-11 18:53pm

Ramalinga Koushik

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StM0n 20-Jun-11 5:33am

Sorry, do you mean the clicked file?

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 20-Jun-11 10:57am

The solutions are so different because a question is not clear. For example, your application is player, player.exe, opened with command-line parameter, a file to play: player.exe myAudio.mp3. What do you want to get from you code, path name of "player.exe" or "myAudio.mp3? Or something else, a program associated with extension?
You don't have satisfactory answer so far, I think.
--SA

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CPallini · Answer 1 · 2011-06-20T00:07:00

Solution 3

Change the Main static method of your program class (I'm assuming you are developing a GUI application) from

C#

static void Main()

to

C#

static void Main(string [] args)

and the check the arg[0] parameter value.

Posted 20-Jun-11 0:07am

CPallini

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StM0n 20-Jun-11 6:11am

You're too fast ;)

CPallini 20-Jun-11 6:19am

:-D
There was no need to remove your answer, though.

StM0n 20-Jun-11 6:28am

Yeah... was a little bit to quick to press delete :P

Abhinav S · Answer 2 · 2011-06-19T23:37:00

Solution 2

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io.filesystemwatcher.aspx[^] could help you out.

Posted 19-Jun-11 23:37pm

Abhinav S

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Venkatesh Mookkan 20-Jun-11 5:51am

I get he is asking for Open a file using his application from Window Explorer like double clicking Word document opens in Word application

StM0n 20-Jun-11 6:08am

Thought so... but I'm not quite sure...

ambarishtv · Answer 3 · 2011-06-20T00:22:00

Solution 4

try this link
C# FileAssociation Class[^]

Posted 20-Jun-11 0:22am

ambarishtv