HELP!!!

How to open excel file with the program when the user selected program to open excel?

I have a software to process data in excel file (*.xls, *.xlsx). My software loaded excel file to process by selecting the path to excel file.

For convenience than I intend to add choices for user by user can right-click into excel file and choose my program to open (Open with ... "My software name").

So users can choose my program as default or not default to open excel file!

I don't know how to do it! Look forward to your guidance!

Are you asking how the user would choose what program to use or are you asking how to write your program so that the user can choose your program?

I'm writing software to handle data from excel file.

The problem I encountered when packing to install the program how to add the icon' program in the context menu ( user must use right click into excel file to select the icon of the program) and program will read excel file (similar to the operation of winrar unzip files) and also when unistall the program's icon in context menu will be removed.


THANKS!!!

What context menu?

As shown above, when I right click the zip file, a menu will appear and also winrar program icon in the menu that appears.
My program process excel file, my problem is how to right click on my excel file then program icon will appear (when installing the program) and will be deleted after unistall.

A good setup program will do most of the work for you. The following are some relevant articles and forum threads but probably all you need to do is to look at the documentation of your setup program and do what it says. There are probably some articles in this web site that will help but I did not look.

• Shortcut (Context) Menus and Shortcut Menu Handlers
• Windows context menu + Shell extension
• Customizing a Shortcut Menu Using Dynamic Verbs
• Opening a file from the explorer context menu.
• Verbs and File Associations
• File Type Handlers