Integrating my new program with Windows
- by Carlos
I've written a log parser, with some generous and insightful help from the SO community:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2906630/keeping-the-ui-responsive-while-parsing-a-very-large-logfile
Now, I'd like to be able to right click one of these logs, select "MyNewLogParser" from "Open With.." and see it open in my new program.
This would require me to
Change something about my XP installation to show my program in the dropdown list
Change the program so that it knows to open the selected file and run the parsing.
What do you call these things, and how is it done? I don't know what to search for...