[2.0] Reading Icons within C#

How could I read the application icon and extract it from another application to use it as icon or any other image format or drawing it in a picture box within the calling application. If there could I read a specific size for the icon or read all and use one size into another tool. I mean could I read all the sizes of the icon and can I use them separately in my application?

Why would you need to read the icon from another application?

I'd like to make an application to run another applications by callig them with shell and I want to make it dynamic to have the shortcuts for the other applications with thier icons to be clearly to the users, so the number and the application itself I don't know and they can modify at any time so I need to read the applications icons to show to the user to select from.

If you just want to get the icon, you can use the ExtractAssociatedIcon method:

Code:

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            System.Drawing.Icon oIcon = System.Drawing.Icon.ExtractAssociatedIcon(@"C:\Program files\Microsoft Office\Office12\winword.exe");
            button1.Image = oIcon.ToBitmap();

            oIcon = System.Drawing.Icon.ExtractAssociatedIcon(@"C:\Windows\system32\calc.exe");
            button2.Image = oIcon.ToBitmap();

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Thanks Negative it works but is there any other way to read a specific size for the Icon like 16X16, 23X23... etc. I tried your sample and it reads the size 32X32 only.

You could try this code from the Codebank, I haven't looked at it, but it appears to use the API:

http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?t=330985