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Recently I got a requirement to associate a file having custom extension with the installed version of our own application. So, whenever user clicks on that given extension file, it should open up directly in my WPF application along with the data population. So, let’s check out how you can achieve this: Step 1 - Creating an application: Create a WPF application or you can take any of your existing application. I’m working on WPF application (using MVVM) but the concept remains same for others, you can go with your Windows Forms or Console application also. That’s pretty acceptable. In my application, I'm taking few customer properties and a file path. Step 2 - Get key for Signing: For signing my assembly I’m using inbuilt feature of Visual Studio. Go to your project properties, navigate to Signing option as shown below:                          ...

Today while working on one of the application that was for ClickOnce deployment I faced a small issue which took almost my half an hour. My task was to associate a default icon to my application. So, in order to do this, I went to my project properties and simply set the icon as shown below: As you can see in above screenshot, it is showing an error icon which states: 'Icon file is not set to be published with the application, or is not part of the required download group' Then I build my application and land up with below error message which was more clear: After hitting my head for many minutes, I thought, let's check out what is this 'download group'. On surfing net, I got the clue that download group is nothing but a collection of files which are going to be part of our publish activity. So, I quickly opened Application Files dialog using Project properties >> Publish. The Application Files dialog looks like: ...

Hey friends, I’m back to my blogging world after a gap of few months. Yes, you are right. I’m alive. Actually I was busy with motherhood J Last night, I was scared to look at my blog, fearing all the followers have given up on me. Trust me, this is very-very scary feeling. Although it’s been not so long since I become a blogger but a fear of losing followers, who actually take time to read my posts is something which I can’t express. Hope you are reading this. After a long break, it is bit difficult to get the same momentum. But I’ll try to make it up. So, stay tuned and keep reading. H appy learning!!!