How can I associate a file type to my Visual Basic Program and to open the file when we double click the file?

Question

that is to assign a particular icon to a file type of our own and when we double click the file it should open in our program and program should display the contents of the file. All this have to be done while my application is installing on a computer

Answer 1

Visual Studio Deployment tools, File Types Editor.

Answer 2

find the file in your directory. Right click. Select properties. The file association is in there. You can reset it.