MimeType Extraction from shell32

Question

Hi friends,

Would it be possible to extract the mimetype by importing shell32.dll in C#? Can anyone help me on this?

For example: for pdf it should retrieve -Adobe Acrobat Document

I could be able to extract using regkeys, but I'm looking for a way to extract using shell32.dll

Answer 1

C# calls into native DLLs using P/Invoke. If there is a function or set of functions exposed in shell32 that does what you want, there is almost certainly an example for it on pinvoke.net

Answer 2

It's not really the MIME type but you can use this :

http://pinvoke.net/default.aspx/shell32/SHGetFileInfo.html

With SHGFI_TYPENAME in the uFlags parameter, it should return what you meant in your question. It didn't try it, let us know.