In .Net (C# or VB: don't care), given a file path string, FileInfo struct, or FileSystemInfo struct for a real existing file, how can I determine the icon(s) used by the shell (explorer) for that f...

I really liked the oxygen appearance of KDE SC 4. I wrote a program to apply these icons to windows. The program is written in NSIS, and is currently nearly fully functional. However, the only way ...

As far as I can tell, there have been (at least?) three types of icon embedding. There's the original style used by shell32.dll and friends, .NET's embedding, and the new type that WPF uses. I'm lo...

I made a icon overlay to my file, *.myfile, but the overlay size is wrong. When the icon shows in size 16x16, the overlay covers the icon. How can I change the overlay size? (IShellIconOverlayIden...

As Cody Gray mentioned when answering my other question here, Raymond Chen talks about how icon overlays are a poor choice here (note that the article is a year old). The substantive argument agai...

I'm creating a tree of folders and files in java. Windows and OSX return the system icons and name with the following code: new JFileChooser().getIcon(File f); new JFileChooser().getName(Fil...