Application Icon

[Guest]

seems like a really simple question after some of the things I've managed to
do but...how do I set up my application so that it has a custom icon rather
than the windows explorer .exe standard icon?

The icon that I want to use is a BMP format picture at the moment.

Can anyone help???

Many thanks

James

 

[Morten Wennevik]

Hi James,

I believe you need to convert it to an icon file (.ico) before you can use
it. Typically you need three formats, 16x16, 32x32, 48x48 pixels.

The icon you see in explorer can be set using /win32icon compiler option or
specified in the project options in solution explorer in Visual Studio .NET

Happy Coding!
Morten Wennevik [C# MVP]

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

s like a really simple question after some of the things
I've managed to do but...how do I set up my application
so that it has a custom icon rather than the windows
explorer .exe standard icon?

You can do that in the project properties dialog.

The icon that I want to use is a BMP format picture at the
moment.

The icon needs to be in the icon file format. VS.NET can be used to create
icon files (".ico").