Thanks for the quick reply.  I did not realise the C# examples were not the same as the VB ones.  The VB sample app does not load the images beyond the file type icon.

Is there a benefit to using a DrawFilter over manipulating the image and assigning it to the ListViewItem Appearance.Image?

I have it working essentially doing the following

 image = image.FromFile(fileInfo.FullName)

appearance.Image = SizeImage(image, 96, 96) 'Does all the proportional Scaling

 Also is there a way to reduce the amount of white space around the picture in the list view item?  The picture could almost be twice as big in the same amount of space without all of the padding. Thanks, Cameron