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Creating customizable products in your Shopify store not only increase your customer satisfaction, it also increases your conversion rate.  Here is a method to add custom options for your Shopify product and convert it into personalized product - Go to Shopify store page and search for "Advanced Product Customizer" app or you can directly the the Shopify app page by clicking on this link Advanced Product Customizer . Install  Advanced Product Customizer  app for free in your Shopify store  From the application dashboard, enable to app embed block to complete the installation process Click "Product Custom Options"  From the Shopify products list, select the product on which you want to add custom options. Advanced Product Customizer  offers Image Swatch, Color Swatch, Text box, File Upload, Radio, Checkbox, Date Picker and more. Here is the a demo video for adding custom option for a Shopify product -
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Extract icons of Installed Windows Application using C#. NET

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Icon of Installed Windows Applications

 First we need to figure out the location of icon for the installed windows application. This information is stored in registry at following locations -
1. Key name - HEKY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall
   Value    - DisplayIcon

2. Key name - HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Installer\Products\{productID}
   Value - ProductIcon


first try to get location of icon from HEKY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall. Here if the value of DisplayIcon is null then try to fetch location of icon from HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Installer\Products\{productID}


Here is the sample code to read the icon -

 
using system.Drawing

//read HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE

Icon ProductIcon;

private void ReadIcon()
{
   try
   {
   string uninstallKey = @"SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall";
                using (RegistryKey rk = Registry.LocalMachine.OpenSubKey(uninstallKey))
                {
                    foreach (string skName in rk.GetSubKeyNames())
                    {
                        using (RegistryKey sk = rk.OpenSubKey(skName))
                        {
                            try
                            {
                                if (sk.GetValue("DisplayName") != null)
                                {

                                    if (sk.GetValue("DisplayIcon") != null)
                                    {
                  ProductIcon = Icon.ExtractAssociatedIcon(sk.GetValue("DisplayIcon").ToString());
                                    }
                                    else
                                    {
                                        //get icon from HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT
                                   ProductIcon = GetIconForRoot(sk.GetValue("DisplayName").ToString());
                                    }
                                }
                            }
                            catch (Exception ex)
                            {
                              MessageBox.Show(ex.Message);
                            }
                     }
               }
    }
    catch(Exception ex)
    {
      MessageBox.Show(ex.Message);
    }
}

  private Icon GetIconForRoot(string productName)
  {
            string producticon = "";
            string InstallerKey = @"Installer\Products";
            using (RegistryKey installkeys = Registry.ClassesRoot.OpenSubKey(InstallerKey))
            {
                foreach (string name in installkeys.GetSubKeyNames())
                {
                    using (RegistryKey product = installkeys.OpenSubKey(name))
                    {
                        if (product.GetValue("ProductName") != null)
                        {
                            if (productName == product.GetValue("ProductName").ToString())
                            {
                                if (product.GetValue("ProductIcon") != null)
                                {
                                    producticon = product.GetValue("ProductIcon").ToString();

                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
            if (Icon.ExtractAssociatedIcon(producticon) != null)
                return Icon.ExtractAssociatedIcon(producticon);
            else
                return null;
  }
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