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  • hugh webster
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    Invoke app from doc

    In a VB6 messaging application, I am adding attached documents.
    How do I let a user open a selected doc in its correct parent app?

    1) Use ShellExecute API?
    2) find the app from HKEY_CLASSES_RO OT, then call Shell()?

    I think I have done it easily before, but I can't remember how!

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    • J French
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      Re: Invoke app from doc

      On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 09:41:23 +0200, "hugh webster"
      <hwebster@bluew in.chwrote:
      >In a VB6 messaging application, I am adding attached documents.
      >How do I let a user open a selected doc in its correct parent app?
      >
      >1) Use ShellExecute API?
      >2) find the app from HKEY_CLASSES_RO OT, then call Shell()?
      >I think I have done it easily before, but I can't remember how!
      ShellExecute is the MS recommended method

      However the smart money is on using FindExecutable to get the full
      name and path of the associated App, after one has got that Shell or
      an API method will do.


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