Re: How can i get icon from IconCache.db?

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Thanks a lot.
I have a question that the format of IconCache.db is different to
thumbs.db.
All the example can't open IconCache.db ,it meet a error.How can i?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alex Blekhman" <xfkt@xxxxxxxxx>
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.vc.language
Sent: Friday, June 29, 2007 4:30 PM
Subject: Re: How can i get icon from IconCache.db?


"tt" wrote:
The file IconCache.db is located in "C:\Documents and
Settings\'username'\Local Settings\Application Data", it is a windows
icon cache. How can i get icon and file name from it

You need to reverse engineer it. Thumbs DB format is not documented by MS.
However, there are several tools and libraries, which enable you to
extract info from .DB files.

Here's brief description of .DB files:

"THUMBS DB FILES"
http://www.accessdata.com/media/en_US/print/papers/wp.Thumbs_DB_Files.en_us.pdf

Here's C# library (with source code) for reading .DB files:

"ThumbDBLib"
http://www.petedavis.net/MySite/DynPageView.aspx?pageid=31

Another open source tool for .DB files:

"Vinetto"
http://vinetto.sourceforge.net/


HTH
Alex

"Alex Blekhman" <xfkt@xxxxxxxxx>
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"tt" wrote:
The file IconCache.db is located in "C:\Documents and
Settings\'username'\Local Settings\Application Data", it is a windows
icon cache. How can i get icon and file name from it

You need to reverse engineer it. Thumbs DB format is not documented by MS.
However, there are several tools and libraries, which enable you to
extract info from .DB files.

Here's brief description of .DB files:

"THUMBS DB FILES"
http://www.accessdata.com/media/en_US/print/papers/wp.Thumbs_DB_Files.en_us.pdf

Here's C# library (with source code) for reading .DB files:

"ThumbDBLib"
http://www.petedavis.net/MySite/DynPageView.aspx?pageid=31

Another open source tool for .DB files:

"Vinetto"
http://vinetto.sourceforge.net/


HTH
Alex



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