ExtractAssociatedIcon returns null

Question

I\'m using the ExtractAssociatedIcon method to retrieve the icon for the file. My hope is to retrieve the same icon that a user would see in their explorer wind

Answer 1

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Check out the link here which eventually leads to P/Invoke.net with the following code:

[DllImport("shell32.dll")]
static extern IntPtr ExtractAssociatedIcon(IntPtr hInst, StringBuilder lpIconPath, out ushort lpiIcon);

[DllImport("shell32.dll")]
static extern IntPtr ExtractIcon(IntPtr hInst, string lpszExeFileName, int nIconIndex);

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ushort uicon;
StringBuilder strB = new StringBuilder(YOUR_FILE_PATH);
IntPtr handle = ExtractAssociatedIcon(this.Handle, strB, out uicon);
Icon ico = Icon.FromHandle(handle);

return ico.ToBitmap();