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ForbesLindesay
ForbesLindesay

Reputation: 10712

Set application icon and window icon to Windows 7 friendly icon

I've created a WPF project in Visual Studio 2010 using .net 4.0

I've created an icon with many different sizes and formats right from 16x16 4 bit BMP up to 256x256 24 bit BMP. I set it as the program's icon in the property pages for the application, and as the window's icon in the icon propety on a WPF Window.

This works to a point. The icon is displayed in all the expected location, however, it seems invariably to use one of th lower resolution images. In the task bar it apperas to be using a 16x16 image. In the folder if you view the exe file with it set to extra large icons it appears as a tiny image with lots of white space arround it, rather than choosing the large icon. Even if I set it up with a 256x256 icon as the only icon, it seems to scale it down, and then put it in the middle with lots of white space around it.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 6738

Answers (2)

Douglas
Douglas

Reputation: 4213

You must set the image dpi to 96. Be Aware of DPI with Image PNGs in WPF - Images Scale Weird or are Blurry

Upvotes: 0

Alex Paven
Alex Paven

Reputation: 5549

See here for some ideas. Also be sure to clean the icon cache (thumbs.db?) to see the updated icon in explorer.

Edit: IcoFx also behaved quite nicely in my tests.

Upvotes: 6

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