Thread: Open a file

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    Open a file

    How can I make my program open a file as an user would've clicked on it. So it opens that file with the program that file type is assigned to?

    I would like to use WinAPI function for that.
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    Check out ShellExecute.

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    Thanks. That seems to be what I was looking for.
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