Getting Icon of Files

[Brian P. Hammer]

All - How can I get an icon associated with a particular file extension and
then get the icon displayed in a picturebox?

I have an app with a picturebox. The picturebox displays pictures and other
files stored in SQL. If the SQL data is an image, it displays the image but
if it is, say a word doc, it displays an image I created that says "Not an
Image". I would like to display the icon associated with the particular
file type inspectead. So, when a user adds a word doc, the icon is shown in
the picturebox or adobe or whatever else the user might save to the
database.

Better even yet, would be to load a preview of the document into the
picturebox, like Adobe does in the "thumbnail" view of a windos folder.

Thanks,
Brian

 

[Bob Powell [MVP]]

This is a shell function using the IExtractImage interface.

Google for this interface such as "IExtractImage +C#"

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[Brian P. Hammer]

Thanks Bob.

This is a shell function using the IExtractImage interface.

Google for this interface such as "IExtractImage +C#"

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[Brian P. Hammer]

Bob - Not exactly what I am looking for I think. I have files stored in a
database. Let's say the user views DB stored file 2 in the picturebox. I
want to look at the extension field and get the icon associated with it, not
a thumbnail. If file 2 is a Word doc, I would expect to see the MSWord icon
appear.

Maybe I missed something in IExtractInage interface?!? The couple sample
projects and google links don't do that. They get a thumbnail of an image
file. I want to get the Icon associated with the type of file. The file
extension value I save in my database as well.

Thanks,
Brian

 

[Michael Phillips, Jr.]

Use SHGetFileInfo with the SHGFI_ICON flag to retrieve a handle to the icon
associated with the file.

 

[Brian P. Hammer]

Thanks... That is what I am looking for.

Use SHGetFileInfo with the SHGFI_ICON flag to retrieve a handle to the
icon associated with the file.