Re: File Association in Dialog-Based Application

One "modern" problem is that some users don't have access to this part of
the registry these days since it usually requires administrator
privileges. We've taken to adding these things in our setup programs
because those are typically run administrators anyway. Even the main code
in MFC fails for many applications, you just don't see it because it fails
elegantly (just doesn't always work as expected).

I think this may be better under Vista because I think the associations
there are under HKCU rather than HKCR.

If it were me, I'd just write a small routine to add the associations in
myself.

Here's some code I use, but it hasn't been updated for Vista and assumes
administrator privileges for at least one running of my program:

void CMyApp::AddXXXRegistryType(void)
{
    Registry qdReg(HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT, _T(".xxx"),true,false);
    Registry qdRegMyKey(HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT,_T("MyApp.MyKey"),true,false);
    Registry
qdRegDefaultIcon(HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT,_T("MyApp.MyKey\\DefaultIcon"),true,false);
    Registry
qdRegShellCommand(HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT,_T("MyApp.MyKey\\Shell\\Open\\Command"),true,false);
    CString csProgramPath, csDefaultIcon, csCommand;
    AfxGetModuleShortFileName(AfxGetInstanceHandle(), csProgramPath);
    csDefaultIcon = csProgramPath + _T(",28"); // Index of icon in EXE
    csCommand = csProgramPath + _T(" \"%1\"");

    if (qdReg.IsValidKey()) {
         bool bSuccess = qdReg.SetString(_T(""), _T("MyApp.MyKey"));
         bSuccess = qdRegMyKey.SetString(_T(""),_T("MyApp.MyKey));
         bSuccess = qdRegMyKey.SetInt(_T("EditFlags"),0);
         bSuccess = qdRegDefaultIcon.SetString(_T(""),csDefaultIcon);
         bSuccess = qdRegShellCommand.SetString(_T(""),csCommand);
    }
    else
         LogEvent("HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\\.xxx reg key not valid");
}

Tom

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