new icon for custom control

[Guest]

hey all,

i'm trying to add an image to my custom control so that it looks unique in
my toolbox. i saw in a webcast that all you had to do was add the image to
the project and change the Build Action property to Embedded Resource.

i did that, recompiled it. but when i delete the old item from the toolbox
and add the new dll it still shows the default icon.

does the image need to be a certain size or something, i'm at a loss.

thanks,
rodchar

 

[Peter Proost]

Hi

<ToolboxBitmap("your path to bitmap")> Public Class YourClass

end class

hth

Peter

 

[Mick Doherty]

http://www.bobpowell.net/toolboxbitmap.htm

 

[Guest]

Great. What's the syntax for an embedded bitmap or Icon?

 

[Peter Proost]

this gets an image out of the assembly

Dim TheAssembly As System.Reflection.Assembly =
System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly()
Dim TheStream As System.IO.Stream
'The image name must be fully qualified with the assembly name and its
extension, case sensitive
TheStream =
TheAssembly.GetManifestResourceStream("WindowsApplication1.FileName.bmp")
Button1.Image = New System.Drawing.Bitmap(TheStream)

I hth because I have't got time to test if it's usefull in toolboxbitmap
case

 

[Guest]

thanks everyone, this helped.

 

[Guest]

Thanks...I'll give it try.

this gets an image out of the assembly

Dim TheAssembly As System.Reflection.Assembly =
System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly()
Dim TheStream As System.IO.Stream
'The image name must be fully qualified with the assembly name and its
extension, case sensitive
TheStream =
TheAssembly.GetManifestResourceStream("WindowsApplication1.FileName.bmp")
Button1.Image = New System.Drawing.Bitmap(TheStream)

I hth because I have't got time to test if it's usefull in toolboxbitmap
case