>hIcon remains 0 after the call to ExtractIconEX(). I have tried different files with the same result.

That's the problem then. Icon indexes are 0 based. If there are six icons in the file, they're numbered 0 through 5. 0 will return the first icon. Try that, and see if the object doesn't properly initialize.

I fixed my problem, BTW. Had the wrong version of the ImageList loaded (Doh!).< g >