>>>>>I created an application that does file exports and imports. These files have a specific extension. I want to be able to click on one of these data files and have the application launch and automatically import it. Can somebody point me in the right direction?
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>>>>Hi Mike,
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>>>>We use the filesystemwatcher class to poll a directory, when a file is placed there by the user, it automatically runs the code to import.
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>>>I'm sorry, I must have not described my question correctly. Reading it again, I could have really simplified it.
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>>>What I want to do is create an application that has data files of a specific extension, and when I open the data files it launches the application and loads the data. For example, when I click on a .doc file it launches Word and loads the document. I know I can make files of that extension open with my application, but I don't know how to load the data.
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>>You have to associate the program to handle that extension with the extension. Open any folder, go to tools/folder options/file types and register the action there. It should work. Thinking about it, you could probably write the registry keys yourself to register your file / type programatically.
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>How do I detect in my application that it was opened with a datafile, instead of opened without one?

Read the args line in main and test for count > 0....