.APPLICATION File

File extension: APPLICATION

File type: Deployment Manifest

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Notes about the APPLICATION file extension:

Incorrect file associations could be the result of underlying issues within your PC system. As such it is highly recommended to scan your PC for invalid registry entries, unused processes and other unfavourable system settings to identify slowdown issues.

The APPLICATION file type is primarily associated with 'ClickOnce' by Microsoft Corporation. ClickOnce is a Microsoft technology for deploying Windows Forms or Windows Presentation Foundation-based software, also called Smart clients. It is similar to Java Web Start for the Java Platform. ClickOnce is only available in .NET 2.0 and later.

Detailed information for file extension APPLICATION:

Primary association: ClickOnce

Company: Microsoft Corporation

File classification: XML

Identifying characters Hex: EF BB BF 3C 3F 78 6D 6C 20 76 65 72 73 69 6F 6E 3D 22 31 2E 30 22 20 65 6E 63 6F 64 69 6E 67 3D 22 75 74 66 2D 38 22 3F 3E 0D 0A , ASCII: ?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?

Related links: Wikipedia ClickOnce Page

'Identifying characters' used on FILExt.com are
provided by Marco Pontello from his TrID database

Important: Invalid file associations could be the result of underlying issues within your Windows PC. It is highly recommended that you scan your PC for invalid registry entries, unused processes and other slowdown issues.

Technical data

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System Info for File Extension .APPLICATION

The following listing is compiled from the database produced by the 'Associate This!' program, selected data from the main FILExt database and information FILExt collected directly from user systems.

ProgramID: Application.Manifest
EXEFile: rundll32.exe dfshim.dll,ShOpenVerbApplication %1

Program Name and MIME Type Info for File Extension .APPLICATION

FILExt has been given permission to display a Program Name/MIME type database collected by Anthony R. Nemmer. Some of this data has already been included into the main FILExt database. Those entries which have not yet been incorporated are displayed below.

Program Name Mime Type Found in Multiple GNU/Linux Packages

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