Creating a File Extension Association

InstallShield 2008 Express Edition

You can create a file association that links a file extension to an executable (.exe) file in your installation project. Note that the .exe file must be included in your project before you can create the file association.

Note that you should not use a dynamically linked file to create a file association. With dynamically linked files, the selection defaults to the top file in the dynamically linked folder’s file list, so you cannot select a specific file.

Task

To create a file extension association:

Open the File Extensions view.

Right-click the File Extensions explorer and click New Extension. InstallShield creates a new file extension with the default name extn (where n is a successive number). Type your own extension without the dot (for example, enter txt instead of .txt) to replace the default name.

Edit the properties of the extension.