default-programs

Make our application show in access and defaults

We are developing our application to be a default e-mail program, and would like it to be one of the options in the Control Panel-> Add or Remove Programs-> Access and Defaults-> Custom-> Choose a default e-mail program: area. How is this done? It's a rather simple registry change to add the application to the list in IExplore-> Tools -...

Windows Vista, Default Programs API, file format associations, and (un)installers - explosive mix!

My application is a rather well behaved Windows citizen, so when I ported it to Windows Vista/7 I replaced my custom file format association code with support for the Default Programs API. However I ran into a problem when trying to make uninstaller for my application - there seems to be no way to remove file format associations via Defa...