I did use urlmon.dll in the end. I thought there would be an easier way but this works. I include the code to help anyone else and allow me to find it again if I need it.
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
...
[DllImport(@"urlmon.dll", CharSet = CharSet.Auto)]
private extern static System.UInt32 FindMimeFromData(
System.UInt32 pBC,
[MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.LPStr)] System.String pwzUrl,
[MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.LPArray)] byte[] pBuffer,
System.UInt32 cbSize,
[MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.LPStr)] System.String pwzMimeProposed,
System.UInt32 dwMimeFlags,
out System.UInt32 ppwzMimeOut,
System.UInt32 dwReserverd
);
public static string getMimeFromFile(string filename)
{
if (!File.Exists(filename))
throw new FileNotFoundException(filename + " not found");
byte[] buffer = new byte[256];
using (FileStream fs = new FileStream(filename, FileMode.Open))
{
if (fs.Length >= 256)
fs.Read(buffer, 0, 256);
else
fs.Read(buffer, 0, (int)fs.Length);
}
try
{
System.UInt32 mimetype;
FindMimeFromData(0, null, buffer, 256, null, 0, out mimetype, 0);
System.IntPtr mimeTypePtr = new IntPtr(mimetype);
string mime = Marshal.PtrToStringUni(mimeTypePtr);
Marshal.FreeCoTaskMem(mimeTypePtr);
return mime;
}
catch (Exception e)
{
return "unknown/unknown";
}
}