Associating a file extension with your application on Windows
In some cases, your fantastic application needs to be opened with just a double-click on a file with an extension associated with it. This is the case with MS Word, MS Excel, and many other well-known pieces of software. If you have a file generated with a program, double-click on the file and the program that generated the file will bring up pointing to that file. So, if you click on a mywordfile.docx file, MS Word will be opened and the mywordfile.docx file's content will be shown. This is what we'd like to do in this recipe. The association can be useful also when you have multiple configurations for a program. Double-click on the ConfigurationXYZ.myext file and the program will ...
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