cant get my file browser to show correct file type - check out the screenshot

[charvelzeppelin]

can someone help me get the file types to show up correctly? It should say the type such as text document, excel spreadsheet...etc. can someone tell me how i should change the fl.GetType.ToString to get it to show up right?

Here is what it looks like now

Dim fldr As DirectoryInfo
        Dim fl As FileInfo
        Dim count As Integer
        Dim tempFile
        Dim pos As Integer
 
        Try
            Directory.SetCurrentDirectory(txtPath.Text())
        Catch e As Exception
            MsgBox(e.Message(), MsgBoxStyle.Critical, "")
            Exit Sub
        End Try
 
        listView1.Items.Clear()
 
        Dim currFldr As New DirectoryInfo(Directory.GetCurrentDirectory)
 
        If currFldr.FullName() <> currFldr.Root.ToString Then
            listView1.Items.Add("..", 1)
            count += 1
        End If
 
        For Each fldr In currFldr.GetDirectories()
            If File.Exists(fldr.Name + "\folder.jpg") Then
                With listView1
                    .Items.Add(fldr.Name, 3)
                    .Items(count).SubItems.Add("")
                    .Items(count).SubItems.Add(fldr.GetType.Name())
                    .Items(count).SubItems.Add(fldr.LastWriteTime)
                End With
            Else
                With listView1
                    .Items.Add(fldr.Name, 2)
                    .Items(count).SubItems.Add("")
                    .Items(count).SubItems.Add(fldr.GetType.Name())
                    .Items(count).SubItems.Add(fldr.LastWriteTime)
                End With
            End If
            count += 1
        Next
 
        For Each fl In currFldr.GetFiles()
            tempFile = fl.Name()
            pos = tempFile.LastIndexOf(".")
 
            If pos > 0 Then
                tempFile = tempFile.Substring(0, pos)
            End If
 
            If File.Exists(tempFile + ".tbn") Then
                With listView1
                    .Items.Add(fl.Name, 5)
                    .Items(count).SubItems.Add(Format(Math.Ceiling(fl.Length / 1024), "###,###,###,###,###") & " KB")
                    .Items(count).SubItems.Add(fl.GetType.ToString)
                    .Items(count).SubItems.Add(fl.LastWriteTime)
                End With
            Else
                With listView1
                    .Items.Add(fl.Name, 4)
                    .Items(count).SubItems.Add(Format(Math.Ceiling(fl.Length / 1024), "###,###,###,###,###") & " KB")
                    .Items(count).SubItems.Add(fl.GetType.ToString)
                    .Items(count).SubItems.Add(fl.LastWriteTime)
                End With
            End If
            count += 1
        Next

[sixfeetsix]

Check this code out, notice that I extract the file type from the registry, not the type of the objects in the program themselves :

Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
 
        Dim myFileInfo As IO.FileInfo
        Dim myDirInfo As IO.DirectoryInfo
        Dim myLVItem As ListViewItem
 
        For Each sDirPath As String In IO.Directory.GetDirectories("c:\")
 
            myDirInfo = New IO.DirectoryInfo(sDirPath)
 
            myLVItem = New ListViewItem(myDirInfo.Name)
 
            myLVItem.SubItems.Add("")
            myLVItem.SubItems.Add("Folder")
            myLVItem.SubItems.Add(myDirInfo.LastWriteTime)
 
            ListView1.Items.Add(myLVItem)
 
        Next
 
        For Each sFilePath As String In IO.Directory.GetFiles("c:\")
 
            myFileInfo = New IO.FileInfo(sFilePath)
 
            myLVItem = New ListViewItem(myFileInfo.Name)
 
            myLVItem.SubItems.Add(Format(Math.Ceiling(myFileInfo.Length / 1024), "###,###,###,###,###") & " KB")
            myLVItem.SubItems.Add(GetFileTypeFromRegistry(myFileInfo.Extension))
            myLVItem.SubItems.Add(myFileInfo.LastWriteTime)
 
            ListView1.Items.Add(myLVItem)
 
        Next
 
    End Sub
 
    Private Function GetFileTypeFromRegistry(ByVal sFileExtension As String) As String
 
        Dim myRegClsRoot As RegistryKey = Registry.ClassesRoot
        Dim myRegKeyExt As RegistryKey
        Dim myRegKeyFileType As RegistryKey
        Dim sFileType As String
 
        If Not sFileExtension.StartsWith(".") Then
            sFileExtension = "." + sFileExtension
        End If
 
        myRegKeyExt = myRegClsRoot.OpenSubKey(sFileExtension, False)
 
        If myRegKeyExt Is Nothing Then
            Return "Unkown Extension"
        End If
 
        If myRegKeyExt.GetValue("") = "" Then
            myRegKeyFileType.Close()
            Return "Unknown Extension"
        End If
 
        myRegKeyFileType = myRegClsRoot.OpenSubKey(myRegKeyExt.GetValue(""), False)
 
        sFileType = myRegKeyFileType.GetValue("")
 
        myRegKeyFileType.Close()
        myRegKeyExt.Close()
 
        Return sFileType
 
    End Function

[charvelzeppelin]

thanks, you're the man ....the function works great.