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yogiwales

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Where can I get the default windows buttons bmp files from? My book says it should be installed with the system, I have vb.net and have made a full installation but after searching my system for them they can't be found. Is there a website somewhere where I can download a range of icons?
 
Locate the Visual Studio .Net folder in Program Files.

Then, go into the Common, Graphics folder. You'll find a lot of the icons there.

Not much seems to have changed from VS6.

Doing a search for icons seems productive, but I'm still looking for a place that has all the Office icons.

Anyone else?
 
If you open the SHELL32.DLL file in your System directory in the .NET
IDE (or some other icon extraction program) you can get the system
icons out. Not sure if they're redistributable or not.
 
I have looked under there before, and just checked again, there is no Graphics folder under Common7\

I don't understans what you mean by opening the SHELL32.DLL ???

Anymore takers?
 
It might mean that you did not install the graphic files (I think it's a option in the install)

Drag the Shell32.dll from your explorer onto the vs.net ide, to 'open' it.
 
I don't know the legalities of using the icons from other programs, but you can open most EXE or DLL files in Visual Studio (using File-Open) and see a list of their resources.

For instance, opening SHELL32.DLL (found in your windows\system32 folder) gives a list of AVIs, bitmaps, cursors, icons and more. You can right click any of them and choose export (make sure to change the extension to the right one).

Again, I don't know if they're redistributable - I did a search on Google but couldn't find anything which doesn't mean you *can* use them. If you find some you like, you may want to write to MS (or post on one of their official forums) to ask.

-Nerseus
 
I can open lots of files with the IDE (moreicons.dll, .exes, etc), but when I try to open shell32.dll I get:

"The system cannot open the file or device specified"

Any ideas????
 
With no solution open, I chose File->Open->File... (Ctrl-O). I get a resource listing in a tree view.

You can also try copying it elsewhere (to a temp directory) and opening from there.

If that doesn't work, I'm not sure what the problem is.

-Nerseus
 
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