File Icons

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Peter

Hello,

Is there a way to, after creating a binary (or other kind of) file using a
FileStream object, to set its icon in Windows?
 
Peter said:
Is there a way to, after creating a binary (or other kind of) file using a
FileStream object, to set its icon in Windows?
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The icon depends on the file type (extension, such as "file.txt", "foo.doc",
"bla.ico").
 
Herfried K. Wagner said:
The icon depends on the file type (extension, such as "file.txt",
"foo.doc", "bla.ico").
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For known file types, yes... but lots of programs create proprietary file
types that have their own icons. Is that a registry issue? And if so, how
would I go about registering a new file type programatically?

This question strays a bit off the topic of this forum, but in previous
version of Windows, a user could set a file icon on a file-by-file basis.
This doesn't seem to be possible any more in XP (I haven't yet moved to
Vista). Or is it?
 
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