Document open on double-click?

[David Veeneman]

I used to know how to do this--I want to double-click on a document created
by my application and have the application and the document open. I have
created the file association in my deployment project, and double-clicking a
document does open my app. But it doesn't open the document.

I recall that the path to the document gets passed to my app as a command
line argument, and My app has to use that path to open the document.. But I
can't remember how to get the path, and I can't find the answer anywhere
online--not even the Google crawler has it.

So, here's my question: How do I get the path to the document that was
clicked, so that I can have my app open the document?

At this point, I'm not trying to do anything fancy, like preventing a second
instance of my app from opening if an instance is already running. All I
want to do is get the path. How do I do that?

Thanks in advance.

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David Veeneman
Foresight Systems

[Ranjan]

Re: Document open on double-click?

Hello David,

Assuming that you have a Main function that accepts string[] args, can you
check the parameters?

HTH,
r.
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> I used to know how to do this--I want to double-click on a document
> created by my application and have the application and the document
> open. I have created the file association in my deployment project,
> and double-clicking a document does open my app. But it doesn't open
> the document.
>
> I recall that the path to the document gets passed to my app as a
> command line argument, and My app has to use that path to open the
> document.. But I can't remember how to get the path, and I can't find
> the answer anywhere online--not even the Google crawler has it.
>
> So, here's my question: How do I get the path to the document that was
> clicked, so that I can have my app open the document?
>
> At this point, I'm not trying to do anything fancy, like preventing a
> second instance of my app from opening if an instance is already
> running. All I want to do is get the path. How do I do that?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>[/color]

[David Veeneman]

Re: Document open on double-click?

For the benefit of anyone else researching the question, here are a couple
of MSDN articles on point:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/csref/html/vclrfcommandlineargumentspg.asp

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/csref/html/vcwlkcommandlineparameterstutorial.asp

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David Veeneman
Foresight Systems

[David Veeneman]

Re: Document open on double-click?

That simple? Thanks.