We are creating a database that needs to read folders and see which files there are in. In addition to that we would like to extract a thumbnail form the file it finds in the folder. the files have the extensions rfa and rvt (Revit = CAD program) The windows explorer shows thumbnails of the files. I tried a program from vbaccelerator and that could extract a thumbnail for such a file but I couldn't turn it into a jpg for example.

My question is should I continue looking for a vb solution or are there other languages who could do this for me. The end result should be that I have a separate thumbnail image for every file in the directory.

thank you for your time.