HI,

Just downloaded SP1 for VS2008 and now have the UI bit for file association which is great and means I don't have to manually add it.

What is the point of it though as all it does is launch the application when you double click on the file. The file that launched the application is not passed as an argument so I fail to see the use.

Can anyone explain to me why I would want to setup file association if it doesn't work properly. I have found a way around it by manually changing the file association to launch explorer and a URL, but you need to be admin to do this.

Thanks

Chris

The file name is not passed into main as args, instead they are made available to the application through the ActivationArguments of the current app domain's setup information. To access the arguments, you need code something like this:

Presumably this is necessary because of the way ClickOnce activates the application, but I don't know for sure.

The file name is not passed into main as args, instead they are made available to the application through the ActivationArguments of the current app domain's setup information. To access the arguments, you need code something like this:

Presumably this is necessary because of the way ClickOnce activates the application, but I don't know for sure.

Thanks that worked great below is the code I used to extract the UNC path from the URI path provided just incase anyone was wondering how to do it:-

Code Snippet

string formPath = string.Empty;

if(AppDomain.CurrentDomain.SetupInformation.ActivationArguments.ActivationData.Length > 0)

{

foreach (string arg in AppDomain.CurrentDomain.SetupInformation.ActivationArguments.ActivationData)
{
if(arg.StartsWith("file"))
{

Uri file = new Uri(arg);
formPath = file.LocalPath;
}
}

}

Chris