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
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";

}

}