How to get the icons of drives in a system and add those icon in listview box with corrosponding drive letters in vb.net.

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I am trying to make a program similar to file explorer so i am writing code to show drive letters with their drive icon in a list view box but i don't know how to put their icon in the list view box.
I am using Microsoft visual basic 2010 express.

What I have tried:

Imports System
Imports System.IO

Public Class Test


    Private Sub Test_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
        Dim drives As String() = System.IO.Directory.GetLogicalDrives()
        For Each drive As String In drives
            ListView1.Items.Add(drive)
            'I need to add the icon of the drive
        Next

    End Sub
End Class

Posted 19-Jan-18 2:05am

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Updated 21-Jan-18 4:49am

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Jochen Arndt · Answer 1 · 2018-01-19T02:53:00

~~There is only one identical icon for local drives. It can~~ Drive icons can be retrieved using the Icon.ExtractAssociatedIcon Method (String) (System.Drawing)[^] by passing a drive string without path like "C:".

To add icons to a list view, you need to create an ImageList, add the icons to that list, and set the corresponding key that has been used to add the icon to the image list when adding the list view item. A C# example can be found at How to: Extract the Icon Associated with a File in Windows Forms | Microsoft Docs[^] (old version with VB.Net code: Gewusst wie: Extrahieren eines mit einer Datei verknüpften Symbols in Windows Forms[^]; ignore the German title, the content is English).

debasish mishra · Answer 2 · 2018-01-19T02:29:00

Solution 1

Don't just download and copy paste the code.First run the sample check the output then debug and see what is happening in the source code then try to implement similarly with your approach.

Implementing a common File system browser with a ListView[^]

Posted 19-Jan-18 2:29am

debasish mishra

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Member 13607190 19-Jan-18 8:40am

I don't know how to add image of drive in image list. That is what i am asking.

[no name] 19-Jan-18 8:43am

What??You can download PNG's of drives and add them to the project folder.

Member 13607190 19-Jan-18 8:52am

I dont want to use my png file i need to get the exact system drive icon

[no name] 19-Jan-18 8:57am

Please check the link.https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12840268/how-to-get-the-drive-icons-as-used-in-windows-explorer

Member 13607190 19-Jan-18 9:19am

It is in c#

[no name] 19-Jan-18 9:24am

There is a concept in .NET called Language interoperability. By using this concept you can keep all your functions in a c# class and call that in VB.One example:http://www.dotnetfunda.com/articles/show/915/how-to-call-csharp-function-from-vbnet