How to get icon given a file extension?

[Artem Moroz]

How to get icon that corresponds to given file extension ? I can't use SHGetFileInfo because file may be not on my hard drive but on FTP server.

[Michael Dunn]

You can indeed use SHGetFileInfo(). Give it a filename of "foo.xyz" (or whatever extension you're interested in, in place of .xyz) and use the SHGFI_USEFILEATTRIBUTES flag. From the docs:

pszPath ... If the uFlags parameter includes the SHGFI_USEFILEATTRIBUTES flag, this parameter does not have to be a valid file name. The function proceeds as if the file exists with the specified name and with the file attributes passed in the dwFileAttributes parameter. This enables you to obtain information about a file type by passing just the extension for pszPath and passing FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL in dwFileAttributes.

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