How do I get File Type Information based on extension? (not MIME) in c#
Thanks Dan, Alright.. This answers the first question I had. Sadly not the second. Note: Not everything prints.. Credits to PInvoke.net
using System;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
using System.Text;
using System.Diagnostics;
namespace WindowsFormsApplication1
{
static class Program
{
[DllImport("Shlwapi.dll", SetLastError = true, CharSet = CharSet.Auto)]
static extern uint AssocQueryString(AssocF flags, AssocStr str, string pszAssoc, string pszExtra, [Out] StringBuilder pszOut, [In][Out] ref uint pcchOut);
/// <summary>
/// The main entry point for the application.
/// </summary>
[STAThread]
static void Main()
{
Debug.WriteLine(FileExtentionInfo(AssocStr.Command, ".doc"), "Command");
Debug.WriteLine(FileExtentionInfo(AssocStr.DDEApplication, ".doc"), "DDEApplication");
Debug.WriteLine(FileExtentionInfo(AssocStr.DDEIfExec, ".doc"), "DDEIfExec");
Debug.WriteLine(FileExtentionInfo(AssocStr.DDETopic, ".doc"), "DDETopic");
Debug.WriteLine(FileExtentionInfo(AssocStr.Executable, ".doc"), "Executable");
Debug.WriteLine(FileExtentionInfo(AssocStr.FriendlyAppName, ".doc"), "FriendlyAppName");
Debug.WriteLine(FileExtentionInfo(AssocStr.FriendlyDocName, ".doc"), "FriendlyDocName");
Debug.WriteLine(FileExtentionInfo(AssocStr.NoOpen, ".doc"), "NoOpen");
Debug.WriteLine(FileExtentionInfo(AssocStr.ShellNewValue, ".doc"), "ShellNewValue");
// DDEApplication: WinWord
//DDEIfExec: Ñﻴ߾
// DDETopic: System
// Executable: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office12\WINWORD.EXE
// FriendlyAppName: Microsoft Office Word
// FriendlyDocName: Microsoft Office Word 97 - 2003 Document
}
public static string FileExtentionInfo(AssocStr assocStr, string doctype)
{
uint pcchOut = 0;
AssocQueryString(AssocF.Verify, assocStr, doctype, null, null, ref pcchOut);
StringBuilder pszOut = new StringBuilder((int)pcchOut);
AssocQueryString(AssocF.Verify, assocStr, doctype, null, pszOut, ref pcchOut);
return pszOut.ToString();
}
[Flags]
public enum AssocF
{
Init_NoRemapCLSID = 0x1,
Init_ByExeName = 0x2,
Open_ByExeName = 0x2,
Init_DefaultToStar = 0x4,
Init_DefaultToFolder = 0x8,
NoUserSettings = 0x10,
NoTruncate = 0x20,
Verify = 0x40,
RemapRunDll = 0x80,
NoFixUps = 0x100,
IgnoreBaseClass = 0x200
}
public enum AssocStr
{
Command = 1,
Executable,
FriendlyDocName,
FriendlyAppName,
NoOpen,
ShellNewValue,
DDECommand,
DDEIfExec,
DDEApplication,
DDETopic
}
}
}
My code that include check to prevent from some common errors... Hope it helps :-)
using System;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.IO;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
using System.Text;
namespace HQ.Util.Unmanaged
{
/// <summary>
/// Usage: string executablePath = FileAssociation.GetExecFileAssociatedToExtension(pathExtension, "open");
/// </summary>
public static class FileAssociation
{
/// <summary>
///
/// </summary>
/// <param name="ext"></param>
/// <param name="verb"></param>
/// <returns>Return null if not found</returns>
public static string GetExecFileAssociatedToExtension(string ext, string verb = null)
{
if (ext[0] != '.')
{
ext = "." + ext;
}
string executablePath = FileExtentionInfo(AssocStr.Executable, ext, verb); // Will only work for 'open' verb
if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(executablePath))
{
executablePath = FileExtentionInfo(AssocStr.Command, ext, verb); // required to find command of any other verb than 'open'
// Extract only the path
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(executablePath) && executablePath.Length > 1)
{
if (executablePath[0] == '"')
{
executablePath = executablePath.Split('\"')[1];
}
else if (executablePath[0] == '\'')
{
executablePath = executablePath.Split('\'')[1];
}
}
}
// Ensure to not return the default OpenWith.exe associated executable in Windows 8 or higher
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(executablePath) && File.Exists(executablePath) &&
!executablePath.ToLower().EndsWith(".dll"))
{
if (executablePath.ToLower().EndsWith("openwith.exe"))
{
return null; // 'OpenWith.exe' is th windows 8 or higher default for unknown extensions. I don't want to have it as associted file
}
return executablePath;
}
return executablePath;
}
[DllImport("Shlwapi.dll", SetLastError = true, CharSet = CharSet.Auto)]
static extern uint AssocQueryString(AssocF flags, AssocStr str, string pszAssoc, string pszExtra, [Out] StringBuilder pszOut, [In][Out] ref uint pcchOut);
private static string FileExtentionInfo(AssocStr assocStr, string doctype, string verb)
{
uint pcchOut = 0;
AssocQueryString(AssocF.Verify, assocStr, doctype, verb, null, ref pcchOut);
Debug.Assert(pcchOut != 0);
if (pcchOut == 0)
{
return "";
}
StringBuilder pszOut = new StringBuilder((int)pcchOut);
AssocQueryString(AssocF.Verify, assocStr, doctype, verb, pszOut, ref pcchOut);
return pszOut.ToString();
}
[Flags]
public enum AssocF
{
Init_NoRemapCLSID = 0x1,
Init_ByExeName = 0x2,
Open_ByExeName = 0x2,
Init_DefaultToStar = 0x4,
Init_DefaultToFolder = 0x8,
NoUserSettings = 0x10,
NoTruncate = 0x20,
Verify = 0x40,
RemapRunDll = 0x80,
NoFixUps = 0x100,
IgnoreBaseClass = 0x200
}
public enum AssocStr
{
Command = 1,
Executable,
FriendlyDocName,
FriendlyAppName,
NoOpen,
ShellNewValue,
DDECommand,
DDEIfExec,
DDEApplication,
DDETopic
}
}
}
Reading stuff like this directly from the registry is generally a bad idea (see Raymond Chen's blog for all the gory details). In this particular case, the API you want is AssocQueryString
in shlwapi.h.
Here's C++ code:
TCHAR buf[1024];
DWORD sz = sizeof(buf) / sizeof(TCHAR);
AssocQueryString(ASSOCF_INIT_DEFAULTTOSTAR, ASSOCSTR_FRIENDLYDOCNAME, L".sql", NULL, buf, &sz);
You can use this from C# either via C++/CLI exposing a nice .NET-friendly API; or call it directly via P/Invoke.