Friday, July 16, 2010

Getting the Content-Type from your Registry

For Episode 19 of the Cloud Cover show, Steve and I discussed the importance of setting the Content-Type on your blobs in Windows Azure blob storage.  This was was especially important for Silverlight clients.  I mentioned that there was a way to look up a Content Type from your registry as opposed to hardcoding a list.  The code is actually pretty simple.  I pulled this from some code I had lying around that does uploads. 

Here it is:

private static string GetContentType(string file)

{

	string contentType = "application/octet-stream";

	string fileExt = System.IO.Path.GetExtension(file).ToLowerInvariant();

	RegistryKey fileExtKey = Registry.ClassesRoot.OpenSubKey(fileExt);

	if (fileExtKey != null && fileExtKey.GetValue("Content Type") != null)

	{

		contentType = fileExtKey.GetValue("Content Type").ToString();

	}

	return contentType;

}




					
	  
	 
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