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Miles
Miles

Reputation: 5726

Set application icon from resources in VS 05

I know I can add a icon to the Resources.resx file of a project and then reference that icon from within the code.

How do I set the icon of the entire EXE from the resources? All I see is a place to browse for another file. I want to use the current icon file that I have in my resources and not have to have a duplicate file in my project...

Upvotes: 3

Views: 3917

Answers (2)

Mitchel Sellers
Mitchel Sellers

Reputation: 63126

The way that the adding of an application icon is that you must select it from the local file system, and then it is embedded into the application at build time. As far as I know it is not possible to have it first pull from a resource file.

Upvotes: 2

Jason Stevenson
Jason Stevenson

Reputation: 4000

One solution I always use to prevent duplicate file references, is to create a solution folder such as "Project Dependencies". And then all refereces are made from that folder, so when building it pulls from the Project Dependencies folder.

This would work for resource files also, just copy them to the solution folder first and then drag them into your resource.

And for the assembly icon, just browse to the Project Dependencies folder as well.

Good Luck!

Upvotes: -1

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