File Association in VB.NET

Nick Rioux

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Easily associate your programs with file types (.jpg, .html, .mp3) with just 2 lines of Visual Basic code

vbfileassociation_demo.zip
- VB File Associations
  - File Association.sln
  - File Association.suo
  - File Association
    - File Association.suo
    - File Association.vbproj
    - File Association.vbproj.user
    - frmMain.Designer.vb
    - frmMain.resx
    - frmMain.vb
    - My Project
      - Application.Designer.vb
      - Application.myapp
      - AssemblyInfo.vb
      - Resources.Designer.vb
      - Resources.resx
      - Settings.Designer.vb
      - Settings.settings
  - File Associations.exe
  - Hello World
    - HelloWorld.vbproj
    - Main.vb
    - My Project
      - app.manifest
      - Application.Designer.vb
      - Application.myapp
      - AssemblyInfo.vb
      - Resources.Designer.vb
      - Resources.resx
      - Settings.Designer.vb
      - Settings.settings
  - HelloWorld.exe
  - test.hello

Imports System
Imports System.Reflection
Imports System.Runtime.InteropServices

' General Information about an assembly is controlled through the following 
' set of attributes. Change these attribute values to modify the information
' associated with an assembly.

' Review the values of the assembly attributes

<Assembly: AssemblyTitle("ConsoleApplication1")> 
<Assembly: AssemblyDescription("")> 
<Assembly: AssemblyCompany("")> 
<Assembly: AssemblyProduct("ConsoleApplication1")> 
<Assembly: AssemblyCopyright("Copyright ©  2010")> 
<Assembly: AssemblyTrademark("")> 

<Assembly: ComVisible(False)>

'The following GUID is for the ID of the typelib if this project is exposed to COM
<Assembly: Guid("d5ce2694-514e-4708-815a-639ce6fead22")> 

' Version information for an assembly consists of the following four values:
'
'      Major Version
'      Minor Version 
'      Build Number
'      Revision
'
' You can specify all the values or you can default the Build and Revision Numbers 
' by using the '*' as shown below:
' <Assembly: AssemblyVersion("1.0.*")> 

<Assembly: AssemblyVersion("1.0.0.0")> 
<Assembly: AssemblyFileVersion("1.0.0.0")>

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