MORE INFO: To answer a question I received about this, if you have a hydrated SPList you can use the SPList.BaseTemplate property as a reasonable parameter.

Unfortunately, I haven't found a *good* way to do this. You are basically forced either to put in a grip of if statements (yuck!) or just put in a simple switch/case. Since it is boring to look up all the image names in the 12 hive, I will make your live easier for you. Just use this helper method which will consume a SPListTemplateType as a parameter. Following, it will recur through and return a string providing the path to the list icon in order to support your interface needs.

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1. 

   Few more from my side…

   public static string RetrieveListIcon(SPListTemplateType type)
   {
   switch (type)
   {
   case SPListTemplateType.DocumentLibrary:
   return “/_layouts/images/itdl.gif”;
   case SPListTemplateType.Announcements:
   return “/_layouts/images/itann.gif”;
   case SPListTemplateType.Events:
   return “/_layouts/images/itevent.gif”;
   case SPListTemplateType.Links:
   return “/_layouts/images/itlink.gif”;
   case SPListTemplateType.Tasks:
   return “/_layouts/images/ittask.gif”;
   case SPListTemplateType.DiscussionBoard:
   return “/_layouts/images/itdisc.gif”;
   case SPListTemplateType.PictureLibrary:
   return “/_layouts/images/itil.gif”;
   case SPListTemplateType.IssueTracking:
   return “/_layouts/images/ITISSUE.GIF”;
   case SPListTemplateType.Survey:
   return “/_layouts/images/itsurvey.GIF”;
   case SPListTemplateType.WorkflowProcess:
   return “/_layouts/images/ITWFH.PNG”;
   case SPListTemplateType.TextBox:
   return “/_layouts/images/ITTXTBOX.GIF”;
   case SPListTemplateType.Agenda:
   return “/_layouts/images/ITAGNDA.GIF”;
   case SPListTemplateType.Categories:
   return “/_layouts/images/ITCAT.GIF”;
   case SPListTemplateType.Comments:
   return “/_layouts/images/ITCOMMNT.GIF”;
   case SPListTemplateType.Contacts:
   return “/_layouts/images/ITCONTCT.GIF”;
   case SPListTemplateType.DataSources:
   return “/_layouts/images/ITDATASH.GIF”;
   case SPListTemplateType.Decision:
   return “/_layouts/images/ITDECIS.GIF”;
   case SPListTemplateType.Posts:
   return “/_layouts/images/ITPOSTS.GIF”;
   case SPListTemplateType.MasterPageCatalog:
   return “/_layouts/images/itdl.gif”;
   case SPListTemplateType.WebPartCatalog:
   return “/_layouts/images/itdl.gif”;
   default:
   return “/_layouts/images/itgen.gif”;
   }
   }

   Comment by Saikat Biswas — June 28, 2011 @ 1:14 am

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