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...get the windows file type?
Autor: Michael R. Schäfer
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uses
  
ShellAPI;

function MrsGetFileType(const strFilename: string): string;
var
  
FileInfo: TSHFileInfo;
begin
  
FillChar(FileInfo, SizeOf(FileInfo), #0);
  SHGetFileInfo(PChar(strFilename), 0, FileInfo, SizeOf(FileInfo), SHGFI_TYPENAME);
  Result := FileInfo.szTypeName;
end;


// Beispiel:
// Example:
procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
begin
  
ShowMessage('File type is: ' + MrsGetFileType('c:\autoexec.bat'));
end;

 

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