Display PDF icon in Sharepoint 2010

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In sharepoint 2010 we will not get the PDF symbol as type for PDF files. This looks odd. To avoid this follow the below steps.

1)

Download a 16X16 icon image for PDF. And paste this icon image in the SharePoint server inside the below given path of folder.

C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\TEMPLATE\IMAGES\






2)

Open the DOCICON.xml file from the XML folder .

Path: C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\TEMPLATE\XML\

Open in Notepad.




  
3)


Inside the DOCICON file find the below </ByExtension> and update this

<Mapping Key="pdf" Value="iconPDF.gif"/>

above the <ByExtension>







4)

Reset the IIS. And see the results for PDF icons.





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