File type icons

[Barguast]

Hopefully this is a simple enough question...

Is there a way to find the default icon for a particular file extension
(.TXT, .DOC, .CPP, etc)? Similarly, how can you access the default icon used
for folders?

Thanks in advance.

[Brian Brown]

Hi,

AFAIK the only way to retreive this information is to use SHGetFileInfo(a
shell function). I have posted a article to a breif tutorial on how to use
it below.

I hope this helps.
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http://www.codeguru.com/Csharp/Cshar...cle.php/c4261/

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...etfileinfo.asp

http://www.pinvoke.net

[Barguast]

Thanks for the link, it should help. The only problem is that you seem to
have to provide a valid file location rather than just a file extension. I
guess I'll be able to create a temporary file and extract the icon from that
but it still seems a little unnecessary. For the record, I'm not particularly
interested in whether (for example) an EXE file has a custom icon.

Thanks again

"Brian Brown" wrote:

Hi,

AFAIK the only way to retreive this information is to use SHGetFileInfo(a
shell function). I have posted a article to a breif tutorial on how to use
it below.

I hope this helps.
------------------------
http://www.codeguru.com/Csharp/Cshar...cle.php/c4261/

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...etfileinfo.asp

http://www.pinvoke.net

[Mattias Sjögren]

Thanks for the link, it should help. The only problem is that you seem to
have to provide a valid file location rather than just a file extension.

Not if you specify the SHGFI_USEFILEATTRIBUTES flag. See

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=179167


Mattias

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