External Protocol IE (advanced regedit)

[johnvista]

In Internet explorer I have seen various programs being opened by using an external protocol
here are some examples.

steam:// (used to launch Internet games)
mms://(windows media)

how can i make my own protocol link which opens my project when called for from IE ?
like

myprotocol://myparameters


And how would i get the program to detect what parameters it was started with.

Ty
John

 

[JohnH]

Have a read at this MSDN article "Pluggable Protocols" http://www.microsoft.com/mind/0199/cutting/cutting0199.asp

MSDN overviews Asynchronous Pluggable Protocols

You might also want to employ your favorite search engine on "Asynchronous Pluggable Protocols"