>Check Re: Extract Associated Icon to a Treeview Thread #668799 Message #669457.

Thankyou very much Sergey. This will get me going to where I need to be.

Urfan


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>>Hi,
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>>In my application I need to show a list of attachements for an company/employee record. The application holds a record (in another table) of each attachment (filename, description and location on network where its held). The attachment could be a word doc, excel file, picture ... I don't wish to save the actual file/object in a table.
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>>What I wanted was to show the list in a similar format to windows explorer using the listview/imagelist controls and allow user to double click to run. I could then use shellexecute to launch the necessary application (using George Taskers Run_with program).
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>>However, I would like to retrieve the icon/picture that is associated with that file type. This is so that it is displayed in the listview control. I was wondering if there was any way of finding out the file types associated applications icon?
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>>TIA
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>>Urfan