Application's Icon

[DPrometheus]

Heyey

 

I have a WinForm application built in VB.NET, all works fine.

Now I want to have a nice icon to finish it all up.

I already have a form Icon (So it shows up while doing Alt+Tab, and the taskbar is also fine).

I also set the icon at the properties page for the application. And even in TaskManager and Explorer (rightclick application exe file -> properties), the icon shows as expected.

Although the .exe file still shows the default icon which VS2005 set at projection creation.

 

How can I change this icon as well?

 

The icon file consists of a 16x16 and 32x32 picture, both 256 colors as 16 colors.

 

~DP

 

After switching the View in Explorer I determined that the icon is succesfully registered, as the icon shows up in the following views:

- Small icons

- List view

- Detailes view

 

However the icon doesn't appear in the other ones

(tiles, medium, large and extra large icons)

 

I've added 48x48p Icons as well as 24x24p Icons, with no different results.

Edited April 21, 2009 by DPrometheus

[JohanPrinsloo]

You did try the project properties where you set the icon? Assembly Name etc. Did you try another icon? Some of windows icons, just for the test?

[DPrometheus]

As posted above, yes I also set the icon at the properties page for the application.

 

I also tried wsrm.ico which I found at the wow64 Windows folder. This icon scales and shows the image in al views in explorer. However, after inserting it in VS2005 and set that one as active icon, I still get the same results. The application icon shows up in only 3 views, and while in one of the other views, the image gets converted back to the default icon.