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Get file type in Mono

How do i get the file type in Mono? i.e. "*.txt" => "Text Document", "*.jpg" => "JPEG Image". Similar to what SHFILEINFO.szTypeName returns with P/Invoke on Windows.

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There is no cross-platform API for this. On Linux you can use GIO, and there are native APIs on Mac too though I don't know them offhand. On Windows you can P/Invoke from Mono.

mhutch  2010-08-19 15:46:06
Thank you. I'm adding a reference to GIO docs here: http://library.gnome.org/devel/gio/stable/index.html
Ozgur Ozcitak  2010-08-20 06:52:28

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