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Tim Mangan
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Aug 23, 2019

FTA "Open with ProgID" settings not captured

Example Application "Opera" (the browser).   The installer of this application sets a file type association "Open with Progid" entry and appropriate registry settings in RegisteredApplications su...
James Pike's avatar
James Pike
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Sep 11, 2019

Hey folks,

 

The packaging tool currently only captures machine wide FTA state. Ie. associations made under HKLM.

Opera by default appears to be setting the association in the user scope.

 

We plan to expand this detection in future updates to the tool. For now, you may be able to work around such issues by toggling the option (available in many apps) to do the association for all users or machine scope during install or first launch while monitoring is ongoing.

 

Thanks!
James

Dan Gough's avatar
Dan Gough
Brass Contributor
Feb 07, 2020

James Pike VSCode sets FTAs via 'Open with ProgID' under HKLM, but they are not detected either.

 

It wouldn't be too hard to write a script to convert the 'Open with ProgID' values to default ProgIDs, I may do this as a temporary workaround until the MSIX Packaging Tool is updated to fix this. 🙂

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    Chacon
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    Feb 26, 2020

    Hi Dan Gough,

     

    Can you give us some more info to help us investigate this?

    • What specific FTAs are you seeing not being detected?
    • What version of the MSIX Packaging Tool are you using?
    • Which options are you selecting when installing VS Code?

     

    Thanks!

    Luis

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    James Pike
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    Feb 18, 2020

    Dan Gough

     

    Thanks for pointing this out. We will take a look at this behavior.

     

    Thanks!
    James