Quick Questions - Easy I'm sure

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From: Ryan Smith (Smith_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 09/24/04 

Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 21:55:03 -0700

I need to develop an app and it would be far quicker and easier to utilize a
web page with XML data. That is fine and dandy - my question comes in the
event that a user selects a piece of data - say a contact - how then can you
launch a 32 bit app and show the data. For example, I have a piece of
software on my computer and it uses HTML to display data - when I click on an
item the hyperlink in the HTML reads:

<a href="ols://Timeless/Go" target="_self">

How do I set up my app to not only launch when the above hyperlink is
clicked? If my question doesn't make sense I would like to know how to write
an app "ols" and have it launched from a hyperlink contained in an HTML page
within the app itself. Anybody know of any resources that will better
explain this?

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