How to get application icon associated with a file

[gumber]

:confused:Hi there, Kindly tell me how can we retrieve the icon associated with a file which is defined by the application used to build that file. Actually I've got a list of files which I want to display in a List Control along with the icon associated with it. Regards Gaurav Gaurav Gumber

[David Crow]

How about FindExecutable() and ExtractIcon()?

[Jason Henderson]

Here's a function I use:

HICON GetFileIconHandle(CString cstrFileName, BOOL bSmallIcon)
{
SHFILEINFO sfi;

if (bSmallIcon)
{
	SHGetFileInfo((LPCTSTR)cstrFileName, 
		FILE\_ATTRIBUTE\_NORMAL, &sfi, sizeof(SHFILEINFO), 
		SHGFI\_ICON | SHGFI\_SMALLICON | SHGFI\_USEFILEATTRIBUTES);
}
else
{
	SHGetFileInfo((LPCTSTR)cstrFileName, 
		FILE\_ATTRIBUTE\_NORMAL, &sfi, sizeof(SHFILEINFO), 
		SHGFI\_ICON | SHGFI\_LARGEICON | SHGFI\_USEFILEATTRIBUTES);
}

return sfi.hIcon;

}

Jason Henderson

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