Extract icon from .exe

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This issue is related to my previous question.
I'm browsing to the .exe with the openFileDialog and create a shortcut into a designated folder inside the aplication.

What I'm now trying is to save the icon of that aplication into a folder as a jpeg or any other format.

I'm doing this because I'm storing the path of the icon into my database, and also saving the sample icon into a folder I created inside the aplication.

Thanks in advance once again!

Posted 29-Jan-13 5:49am

Steven Borges

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kindly check the link for batter information
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/iconsext.html[^]

click here to download icon extractor
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/iconsext.zip[^]

Posted 29-Jan-13 16:42pm

vivek511

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fjdiewornncalwe 30-Jan-13 9:20am

My 1. He doesn't want a piece of software to do this, he is looking for a way to do this from within his application.

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Gerenatian · Accepted Answer · 2013-01-29T06:07:00

Solution 1

Icon result = Icon.ExtractAssociatedIcon(filePath)

The below code is not my own but will work once you have the icon saved as a variable.
Credit: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5925069/save-icon-file-to-hard-drive[^]

C#

string s = Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.Desktop) + @"\IconData.ico";
using (FileStream fs = new FileStream(s, FileMode.Create))
    ico.Save(fs);

Posted 29-Jan-13 6:07am

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Updated 29-Jan-13 6:49am

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Steven Borges 29-Jan-13 12:10pm

And how do I send the extracted file to the path I desire?

Gerenatian 29-Jan-13 12:50pm

I updated my solution to add the ability to extract the icon to a directory.

Steven Borges 29-Jan-13 16:29pm

Thanks, does the .ico still work to use as a background in the property of an tool I place?

Steven Borges 1-Feb-13 5:01am

Seems like I can't use the .ico
Isn't there a way to convert the .ico to a .jpg so that I can use it as a background in the code?

Steven Borges 1-Feb-13 6:03am

Forget it mate, your code is perfect, all I had to do is instead of using @"\IconData.ico"; using @"\IconData.jpg" instead;

Thank you very much.