How can I display the “open with” dialog for an unregistered file extension? [duplicate]

Answer 1

Go with following code you will get your solution-

public const uint SEE_MASK_INVOKEIDLIST = 12;//add this line in your code


CoInitializeEx(NULL, COINIT_APARTMENTTHREADED|COINIT_DISABLE_OLE1DDE);
SHELLEXECUTEINFO sei = { sizeof(sei) };
sei.nShow = SW_SHOWNORMAL;
sei.lpVerb = "openas";
sei.lpFile = "C:\\yourfile.ext";
sei.lfmask= SEE_MASK_INVOKEIDLIST;//add this line in your code
ShellExecuteEx(&sei);

SEE_MASK_INVOKEIDLIST this variable set "Verb" from presented system registry.