>>>I am tyring to display icons for any type of file, similar to the windows explorer. (I.E. - display the correct icon for a >I got my hands on your article and it gives me exactly what I need to create the icons. The only challenge I have now is to store them to the imagelist. Thank you SO MUCH for your help!

The only problem that I see with using the imagelist control is that you're going to have to (at some point) get the icon into one or more files. In development, this isn't that big a deal. Runtime might be a far different story. One underused, and undertalked about control that you can utilize for the image list is the PictureClip control. It allows you to store numerous similar sized images in a single bitmap, and reference them via the GraphicCell property. The advantage is that rather than having to store, say 10 individual bitmaps in the executable and load them individually, there's a single bitmap to store and load. This can, obviously, help improve performance.