How to access thumbnail cache of vista and 7 using c#

Question

I wanted to access the thumb cache of vista and 7 to be used in my ImageList. I know how to do it in XP by means of the thumbs.db files, but in vista and 7 the thumbs.db is not present so how will i do it?

Answer 1

You need to use IShellItemImageFactory::GetImage().

.NET interop is here. http://www.pinvoke.net/default.aspx/Interfaces.IShellItemImageFactory

There is also a sample using Direct2D and this interface on msdn.microsoft.com.