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There are times when it is appropriate for an application to be called via a URL and be passed data, such as "myprotocol://open?id=100”. The following code shows how an application can self register itself to handle a URL protocol.

  
public void RegisterUrlProtocol(string myUrlProtocolName, bool force,)
{
    RegistryKey rKey = Registry.ClassesRoot.OpenSubKey(myUrlProtocolName, true);

    if (force || rKey == null)
    {
 rKey = Registry.ClassesRoot.CreateSubKey(myUrlProtocolName);
 rKey.SetValue("", "URL:"+ myUrlProtocolName+" Protocol");
 rKey.SetValue("URL Protocol", "");

 rKey = rKey.CreateSubKey(@"shell\open\command");
 rKey.SetValue("", "\"" + Application.ExecutablePath + "\" %1");
    }

    if (rKey != null)
    {
 rKey.Close();
    }
}

Labels: code, csharp

posted by RickLaFleur.com  # Wednesday, April 01, 2009