Hi,
Would anyone tell me how to get the system registered icon and description of a file
For instance: *.doc (Word document, [MS-Word icon])
with tanks.
How to get system icons and descriptions
Hot Topic
- How I can detect hardware?
- How to handle Ctrl-C event on a multi-threaded console application?
- compare
- get width of windows user control in inches
- Cannot Update Database!!!
- SQL lookup
- c# addin
- Other application windows appear between forms when showdialog called.
- Multi-user limit
- error on vb.net to c# conversion
Visual C#
- Creating Nightly Build Problems
- Pop up property grid
- Setting Exchange Master Account SID
- How to find registered event handlers?
- How to Set columns width in a Win. Form Datagrid at runtime?
- "Manage your Server"
- Helpful links for VB 6 users, migrate to C#
- Validating integers in a textbox
- DBNull in datetimepicker
- Specify A Font in a file.
How to get system icons and descriptions
Degremont
Hi!
Did you try SHGetFileInfo() or ExtractAssociatedIconEx() functions from Win32 API
Monkletx1
Yes, I did.
But beacuase of 2 reasons i don't like to use them:
1- I prefer a .NET way
2- ExtractAssociatedIconEx() gives me an icon Handle which is not usable in .NET component. I don't know how to use this handle in a list view for example.
Thanks for you suggesttion anyway.
Bapha
1. Icon.ExtractAssociatedIcon() really solve your problem this time
2. any handle easy used in .NET related classes by call to method like FromHandle() and Icon class also have ToBitmap() method that can help you to convert it to image if you need it.
laja
Thanks my friend, you are great, man.
Thanks a lot.
niv_7
Unfortunately, these are the APIs you need to use. Maybe you can wrap them up nicely in a .NET class...
If you use Icon.FromHandle you can convert that Handle to an Icon.
Michael Lowe