Generating Thumbnails for Custom File Types?

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I created my own file format standard for something ,,,like a ".dxf" file or a ".wmf" file.

It's its own file type,so windows won't display the picture on the desktop or inside folders.

I REALLY want Windows to be able to display the thumbnail of the file as the icons on the desktop or in folders.I had studied the "regedit.exe" about how the ".jpg" file can display it's thumbnail with a DLL "shimgvw.dll".

Now, all I want to know is how to create a dll file like "shimgvw.dll" in C#, so that I can display the thumbnail of the my own file format standard files as the icons on the desktop or in folders.

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