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A file association associates a file with an application capable of opening that file. More commonly, a file association associates a class of files (usually determined by their filename extension, such as .txt) with a corresponding application.

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Get app suggestions on trying to open an Epub

Possible Duplicate: How do I associate file types with an iPhone application? I am working on an app that allows everyone to read books like Epub, PDF, ACSM. I installed the app on my IPAD via testflight and then I went to safari to download a…
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Writing an App for OS X that allows users to select app with Contextual Menu item "Open With"

I have a Multimedia App that is for Mac OS X using Xcode. The languages used are Objective-C, C++ and C. I want to somehow get my app in the "Open With" contextual menu without having the user do anything. I don't want to "take over" the default…
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File associations in Java using jnlp.jar, without full JWS?

The Java Web Start technology has an IntegrationService API for creating file associations. My question is whether it is possible to somehow use this API (possibly by including jnlp.jar in my app) to create file associations, but without the full…
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How to make Windows autoview a file with my program, and how to make the program read it?

I want it like when we do "open with" and then choose Notepad. So that when I "open with" a file there will be my program in the list. How to associate a file type with my program? How to make the program handle the file?
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How can I get syntax highlighting for my format in an Eclipse text editor?

I need syntax highlighting for text with a specific structure in an Eclipse text editor. The scheme is simple; basically each line has six words separated by white-space, and lines starting with # are comments. Most important is to highlight the…
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Associate Extensions in Windows CE

How can I associate an extension of a file to an program in Windows CE? It's so boring to run my Python programs using cmd. If I associate Python with my **.py* files I'm going to run my program faster. Thanks!
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What file extension to use for custom file type?

I have a program which creates certain save files during its use. Technically they are XML files, however I don't want to use the .xml extension as I will be modifying the shell so that my program opens when the files are double clicked in…
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Reassociate file types with Visual Studio 2003

I have a dual setup development machine with Visual Studio 2003 and 2005. How can I restore the original file associations to Visual Studio 2003? Everytime I try to open up a *.cs file it opens it with 2005 when I want it to default open up in…
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launching jar file via desktop shortcut

I have a jar file App.jar in C:\program files\My app\Data\ along with the JRE with a native launcher in C:\program files\My app\. The launcher is programmed to accept any command line args and pass it on to the jar file by calling it via the javaw…
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error message for open wrong file

I am working on qt to develop interfaces for c++ code,so I want to know how can I check file type that a user opens it from open file because a program accepts only video files. I want to appear error message if a file was anything except video…
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Windows file association with ruby

i am trying to change windows file association via ruby. Assoc part works but ftype does not work why it does not work? pth = Dir.pwd pth << "/pfReader.exe" pth.gsub "/","\\" system("assoc .pf=pfReader") puts("assoc command is…
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Windows registry - register an application to open a file type

I'm making an installer for an application which has a custom URI scheme and its own file type to open with it. The application executed with a launcher.bat, In the registry I've set the launcher.bat to do so. It works as it should be, unless I want…
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Root program of the files

I want to make a program (for Mac it is AppDelete) that deletes all the files related to that program (Java program). How it is with the file affiliation (what files are from what programs).
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OS X application that can run shell commands

I tried asking this question on Apple.StackExchange.com, but they redirected me back to here. I created a custom file association with TextEdit and have it working. I need to now build an application that uses my custom file association and runs…
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Open file with application

I have .xml file to store my data from my application. Now I would like to click on the .xml file -> start my application with data loaded from the .xml file. What makes application to run the xml parsing metods ? I have no idea how to do this,…
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