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Question by GeethaThangam · Jun 17, 2020 at 02:07 PM · windowsdll errorshell

Is it possible to use "Microsoft-WindowsAPICodePack-Shell" in Unity?

I want to load the thumbnail of the file that is stored in my Windows system. The file could be any format of image, text, audio, video, pdf etc. I want to show the thumbnail of the file in my Unity application, as it is shown in the "File Explorer".

While searching through internet, "Microsoft-WindowsAPICodePack-Shell" nuget is suggested to retrieve the thumbnail from the file. It is working in one of the WPF applications. But when I tried to bring the .dll into the Plugins folder, Unity shows the following error. alt text

Nuget Url: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft-WindowsAPICodePack-Shell/1.1.4

The question is: Is it possible to use "Microsoft-WindowsAPICodePack-Shell" in Unity? If not, is there any alternate libraries that I can use to achieve the above task?

Unity version: 2018.4.9f1
TargetFramework version in Unity: 4.7.1
Visual studio - 2019, version: 16.4.5

Try-out solution:
Able to resolve the issue. I could not use the PresentationCore or PresentationFramework dlls from the .Net framework path. Hence I downloaded the source code for these two from, https://github.com/mono/olive/tree/master/class and built it.

Then downloaded the source code for "Windows API Code Pack 1.1" from, https://github.com/aybe/Windows-API-Code-Pack-1.1/tree/master/source%20(original).

Removed the existing reference to PresentationCore & PresentationFramework dlls from "\WindowsAPICodePack\Shell" project. Copied the generated dlls into the path of this project and added reference to these dlls.

When I tried to build "\WindowsAPICodePack\Shell" project, it threw compilation errors because few methods were missing in the generated dlls. I commented them, since those APIs are not needed for my use case, then it built successfully. I brought it inside the Unity application and able to refer the required APIs.

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