File Assocation

Introduction

In this article, we are going to discuss File Association and opening files when they are clicked on in Explorer. For example, imagine you have a program called TextMagic - an advanced text editor. You have your own file format, with a tmg file extension. When your user clicks on a file in explorer with a tmg extension you want your program to automatically run and then open that file. How on earth do we get this to happen? Using File Association!

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