Get large icon from file extension

Question

There are several places that talk about how to get an icon from a file extension such as this one and this other one. After several hours of playing around with this kind of pr

Answer 1

You cannot make ShGetFileInfo return ExtraLarge and Jumbo icons.

Instead,

1) Call ShGetFileInfo with the SysIconIndex ( 0x000004000) flag   2) Get the System Imagelist with the proper size using ShGetImageList 3) Get the HICON using ImageList_GetIcon and the .iIcon value from SHFILEINFO.