Setting custom file associations

Hello, thank you for the suggestion.  While I wish we could programmatically allow file associations to be altered, Microsoft made Windows 8 apps so that you have to declare which file types you support up-front at app compile time.  Thus nothing can dynamically be changed once the app has been deployed to the user, in terms of available file associations.  Unfortunately we aren't able to implement this suggestion due to that limitation by Microsoft.

That's unfortunate, but understandable. In that case, could you be so kind as to implement .ini file support? I think they are pretty similar to text files (and Code Writer can open them currently).

Sure, we'll add it to the suggestion list.

Thank you very much.

Not knowing anything about Win 8 apps, is it possible to register for the null extension at least and try and autodetect the syntax highlighting to use?  That would at least catch Makefile, KConfig, SConstruct etc etc

Hi Ben,

Sorry but Microsoft requires that for system file associations, they are registered specifically at compile time (on our end).

You can however set up custom file extensions within the app (via the Settings charm) when you run it.  That will at least allow you to open them from the app's Browse dialog.  But it won't help when trying to double-click a file from the desktop.

No worries, thought as much.

The custom extension thing still doesn't help for files without extension (like the examples above), but I guess there isn't much that can be done about that.

Cheers.

Hi Ben,

I did a quick test by adding a "." file extension to the Microsoft file open picker but it still didn't see any files without an extension.  So even if we allowed a null extension to be added in our Settings UI, it looks like it wouldn't do any good.

Hello, we'll be adding INI files to the next version (v1.5).