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In an application which contains many forms, I am hoping to create an icon for each form. Furthermore I wish to display the icons in an additional form. Now when I click on an icon, the associated form should pop up. Question: I assume that I can specify a .bmp file as the value of the icon property of a form. How do I do this?? Here are the steps that I followed: a) renamed a .bmp file as a .ico file. b) attempted to choose the .ico file as the icon for a form. When I try this, I get an error stating that the "the argument picture must be a picture that can be used as an icon". What am I doing wrong? Thanks

The issue is that I need to create a "new menu" item each time I loop around in the for loop shown in the code snippet in the original post. Somehow I have to be able to change the name of the menuitem when I am instantiating it in the loop: For each str in mystring Dim <some name based on current value of str> As new menuitem Is this possible or do I need to design the application differently. Basically an example is the that the menu items under "stencils" in VISIO get updated as you add new folders to the "solutions" directory. I am trying to achieve the same thing. Thanks

Thanks for the quick response, however I get an error: "Name is not a member of system.Windows.Forms.MenuItem" Please help!!

I would like to accomplish the following task: 1. Read the names of all folders in c:/temp 2. create a menu item for each folder that is found under c:/temp and name the menu item with the concatanation of "mnu" and "folder name" I can read the names of folders under c:/temp as follows: Dim mystring As String() mystring = System.IO.Directory.GetFileSystemEntries("c:\temp") Now I want to use the following for loop: Dim str As String For Each str In mystring '...question is what do I need to do here -- the following does not work Dim newstring As string newstring = "mnu" & str '...now I have the correct string in newstring which I would like to use as a name for a menu item like so: Dim newstring As New MenuItem() '...the issue is that newstring is already defined as a string and now I am trying to define it as a menu item. '...How do get a menuItem whose name is equal to the value of newstring???? Next str

I would like to accomplish the following task: 1. Read the names of all folders in c:/temp 2. create a menu item for each folder that is found under c:/temp and name the menu item with the concatanation of "mnu" and "folder name" I can read the names of folders under c:/temp as follows: Dim mystring As String() mystring = System.IO.Directory.GetFileSystemEntries("c:\temp") Now I want to use the following for loop: Dim str As String For Each str In mystring '...question is what do I need to do here -- the following does not work Dim newstring As string newstring = "mnu" & str '...now I have the correct string in newstring which I would like to use as a name for a menu item like so: Dim newstring As New MenuItem() '...the issue is that newstring is already defined as a string and now I am trying to define it as a menu item. '...How do get a menuItem whose name is equal to the value of newstring???? Next str