[Help] Associating file extension with program? [solved]

How would i associate a file extension with my program. I'm making a batch file creator and want to associate the custom save file extension .vlab with my program. So that it gets the same icon as my program and says "Batch-Creator save file" in the file description. Any idea how to do this? Pretty sure it has something to do with the registry

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/185453
Tried that and got an error

Gimme a few secs to dig up the link I found a while ago for someone.

Found it:
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/vb/VBFileAssociation.aspx

Originally Posted by Jason

Gimme a few secs to dig up the link I found a while ago for someone.

Found it:
File Association in VB.NET - CodeProject

I think @NextGen1 should update his Tutorial Thread and put new links to ur solved threads

Should be helpful

Originally Posted by Jason

Gimme a few secs to dig up the link I found a while ago for someone.

Found it:
File Association in VB.NET - CodeProject

Thanks worked with some editing. Any idea how to change the icon? i have this atm:

Code:

My.Computer.Registry.ClassesRoot.CreateSubKey("VLAB\DefaultIcon").SetValue("", Application.ExecutablePath, Microsoft.Win32.RegistryValueKind.String)

Edit: Working

VISUAL BASIC,

Y U NO INCLUDE "UNSAFE" CODE?

Originally Posted by Disturbed

VISUAL BASIC,

Y U NO INCLUDE "UNSAFE" CODE?

Why you no spell correctly?

Ontopic: I was trying the same thing before with no luck please let me know if you find out

The code i posted before worked, just had too restart my PC

Alrighty, sounds good. I'll go right ahead and mark this as solved. GG

[Help] Associating file extension with program? [solved]

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