Extract an icon from a dll?

[sarthemaker]

I am trying to show all the files in a given directory, which I have done already, but now I am trying to give each file an icon according to it's extension. I have made a code to get the path to the icon for it's extension from the registry, which gives me something like this: "C:\Windows\system32\imageres.dll,-102" But how can I retrieve this icon?

 

[JohnH]

Icon.ExtractAssociatedIcon Method (System.Drawing) will return the associated icon for any file.

 

[sarthemaker]

Do you think that you could show me an example of how to use it with the dll, and the number of the icon? "C:\Windows\system32\imageres.dll,-102" because I can only extract the dll which gives me the first icon..

 

[JohnH]

Go for the file path of interest, for example path "c:\some.jpg" will give you the icon shown in Explorer for the some.jpg file.