Displaying associated icons

Thanks to these forums I now know how to extract and display an icon from a given file, and place it in a picture box. However, how can I get that same icon into an ImageList and therefore use it in a ListView (ie. Like a list of files with the correct icon in the listview.)

Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Stu.

Extract the icon and paint to a picture box and make it persistent by assigning the image property to the picture property.
Then use the Add method of the ListImages collection.

Code:

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    Static iIconCount As Integer
   
'code to extract and paint an icon
'to the picIcon PictureBox goes here
    picIcon.Picture = picIcon.Image
    iIconCount = iIconCount + 1
    With imlIcons
        'the following two properties can
        'be set during design time
        .MaskColor = picIcon.BackColor
        .UseMaskColor = True
        .ListImages.Add , "Icon" & iIconCount, picIcon.Picture
    End With

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The iIconCount in the above example is only there so we can give the icon a unique key in the ListImages collection.

Good luck!

Great, thanks.

It was the use of Image property I was missing. It now works nicely and my list views have meaningful icons.

Thanks again.