Comments on: Get the 48×48 or 256×256 icon of a file on Windows

By: Johnb140

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By: bai

bai — Tue, 09 Jul 2013 06:01:38 +0000

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By: CHP

CHP — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 12:14:34 +0000

You need to use File Attributes:

SHGetFileInfo(…,FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL,…,SHGFI_SYSICONINDEX|SHGFI_USEFILEATTRIBUTES);

By: JKR

JKR — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 17:30:09 +0000

it doesnt work for me at all…

SHGetFileInfo returns NULL
and sfi is empty.

compiled as 32bit on a 64bit machine
do you have any idea how to solve this?

Regards
JKR

By: Laurent

Laurent — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 13:54:37 +0000

Hi Andrea, glad to hear the code sample helped and that you could convert it to C# 🙂

By: Andrea D'Intino

Andrea D'Intino — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 18:01:25 +0000

Hi there,
thanks for the article, we used it along with an other article to implement large icons in our .net application. We wrote a post about the whole story here:

http://tabbles.net/blog/2010/06/10/how-to-have-large-file-icons-with-shgetfileinfo-in-c/

Thanks 🙂

Andrea and Maurizio

By: How to have large file icons with SHGetFileInfo in C# | Tabbles developers' blog

Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:27:21 +0000

[…] we started investigating and found this article on how to get large icons using C++. The problem was to convert this code to C#. This is not easy, at least for me, because it […]