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Manage your daily tasks and To-Do list using some exciting features of Windows 7.
// Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

namespace Microsoft.WindowsAPICodePack.Shell
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Represents the different retrieval options for the thumbnail or icon,
    /// such as extracting the thumbnail or icon from a file, 
    /// from the cache only, or from memory only.
    /// </summary>
    [System.Diagnostics.CodeAnalysis.SuppressMessage("Microsoft.Design", "CA1027:MarkEnumsWithFlags", Justification = "The members of this enum do not represent flags")]
    public enum ShellThumbnailRetrievalOptions
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// The default behavior loads a thumbnail. If there is no thumbnail for the current ShellItem,  
        /// the icon is retrieved. The thumbnail or icon is extracted if it is not currently cached.
        /// </summary>
        Default,

        /// <summary>
        /// The CacheOnly behavior returns a cached thumbnail if it is available. Allows access to the disk,
        /// but only to retrieve a cached item. If no cached thumbnail is available, a cached per-instance icon is returned but  
        /// a thumbnail or icon is not extracted.
        /// </summary>
        CacheOnly = ShellNativeMethods.SIIGBF.SIIGBF_INCACHEONLY,

        /// <summary>
        /// The MemoryOnly behavior returns the item only if it is in memory. The disk is not accessed even if the item is cached. 
        /// Note that this only returns an already-cached icon and can fall back to a per-class icon if 
        /// an item has a per-instance icon that has not been cached yet. Retrieving a thumbnail, 
        /// even if it is cached, always requires the disk to be accessed, so this method should not be 
        /// called from the user interface (UI) thread without passing ShellThumbnailCacheOptions.MemoryOnly.
        /// </summary>
        MemoryOnly = ShellNativeMethods.SIIGBF.SIIGBF_MEMORYONLY,
    }

    /// <summary>
    /// Represents the format options for the thumbnails and icons.
    /// </summary>
    [System.Diagnostics.CodeAnalysis.SuppressMessage("Microsoft.Design", "CA1027:MarkEnumsWithFlags", Justification = "The members of this enum do not represent flags")]
    public enum ShellThumbnailFormatOptions
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// The default behavior loads a thumbnail. An HBITMAP for the icon of the item is retrieved if there is no thumbnail for the current Shell Item.
        /// </summary>
        Default,

        /// <summary>
        /// The ThumbnailOnly behavior returns only the thumbnails, never the icon. Note that not all items have thumbnails 
        /// so ShellThumbnailFormatOptions.ThumbnailOnly can fail in these cases.
        /// </summary>
        ThumbnailOnly = ShellNativeMethods.SIIGBF.SIIGBF_THUMBNAILONLY,
        
        /// <summary>
        /// The IconOnly behavior returns only the icon, never the thumbnail.
        /// </summary>
        IconOnly = ShellNativeMethods.SIIGBF.SIIGBF_ICONONLY,
    }
}

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