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] - 07 Jul 2006 18:39 GMT
This is a shell function using the IExtractImage interface.
Google for this interface such as "IExtractImage +C#"

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> All - How can I get an icon associated with a particular file extension
> and then get the icon displayed in a picturebox?
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> Thanks,
> Brian
Brian P. Hammer - 07 Jul 2006 20:14 GMT
Thanks Bob.
> This is a shell function using the IExtractImage interface.
>
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>> Thanks,
>> Brian
Brian P. Hammer - 07 Jul 2006 21:35 GMT
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
> This is a shell function using the IExtractImage interface.
>
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>> Thanks,
>> Brian
Michael Phillips, Jr. - 07 Jul 2006 22:18 GMT
Use SHGetFileInfo with the SHGFI_ICON flag to retrieve a handle to the icon
associated with the file.
> All - How can I get an icon associated with a particular file extension
> and then get the icon displayed in a picturebox?
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> Thanks,
> Brian
Brian P. Hammer - 08 Jul 2006 00:30 GMT
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.
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>> Thanks,
>> Brian