Phil Couling
Software developer, working in Derby, England. Currently I'm mostly developing in C++ with a combination of Borland, Visual Studio and MinGW.
Much of my work at the moment is with Databases (Firebird and Postgres), producing "Key Proformance Indicators" for management as well as Reliability Tracking software.
Some of the other languages I user are: Java VB6 / VBA PHP
Latest articles
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File Extensions: Finding the default Icon
by Phil CoulingThis article demonstrates how you can display the default icon for a given file extension. This is particularly useful for making file sharing and FTP client software etc. I will show you how to take a file name and use it to find and draw its icon in a picture box.