Invoke app from doc

[hugh webster]

In a VB6 messaging application, I am adding attached documents.
How do I let a user open a selected doc in its correct parent app?

1) Use ShellExecute API?
2) find the app from HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT, then call Shell()?

I think I have done it easily before, but I can't remember how!

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[J French]

On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 09:41:23 +0200, "hugh webster"
<hw******@bluewin.chwrote:

>In a VB6 messaging application, I am adding attached documents.
How do I let a user open a selected doc in its correct parent app?

1) Use ShellExecute API?
2) find the app from HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT, then call Shell()?

>I think I have done it easily before, but I can't remember how!

ShellExecute is the MS recommended method

However the smart money is on using FindExecutable to get the full
name and path of the associated App, after one has got that Shell or
an API method will do.