Load Default Document Icon

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Chris Newby

Using .Net 1.1, I have a WinForm app that shows a list of documents: Word
documents, Excel documents, PDF documents, etc., whatever documents the user
wants.

In this list I currently use a default icon that I made that is specific to
my WinForm application, however I would prefere to show whatever icon is
associated with the particular document type by default on the local user's
system. What is the best way to do this?

TIA//
 
You need to build a little shell extension.

Try this article
http://www.theserverside.net/tt/articles/showarticle.tss?id=ShellExtensions


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