Microsoft KB Archive/109931

= ACC: Sample Function to Find File Associations =

Article ID: 109931

Article Last Modified on 5/6/2003

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Access 1.0 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Access 1.1 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Access 2.0 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q109931



SUMMARY
Advanced: Requires expert coding, interoperability, and multiuser skills.

This article demonstrates a sample Access Basic function that you can use to obtain the executable file name associated with a document file name by calling the Microsoft Windows API function FindExecutable.



MORE INFORMATION
The following sample function requires a path string parameter and a file name string parameter. The function returns the path of the associated file.

NOTE: In the following sample code, an underscore (_) is used as a line- continuation character. Remove the underscore from the end of the line when re-creating this code in Access Basic.

  ' *** Declarations Section *** Option Explicit

Declare Function FindExecutable% Lib "Shell" (ByVal lpszFile$, _     ByVal lpszDir$, ByVal lpszResult$)

Function GetAssociation (Path As String, FileName As String) Dim Result As String, X As Integer Result = Space$(256) X = FindExecutable(FileName, Path, Result) GetAssociation = Result End Function

To find the path and name of the executable file associated with a file called MYDB.MDB that is located in the root directory on the D drive you could type the following in an Immediate window:

? GetAssociation ("D:\", "MYDB.MDB")

The function would return

  D:\ACCESS.100\MSACCESS.EXE

if the MYDB.MDB file was associated with the MSACCESS.EXE executable file located in the ACCESS.100 directory on the D drive.

