Icon On Main Form??

[HostMike]

How do I change the icon on the main form? (icon in the top left corner)

[mutant]

Select the form, go to the propeties window and find the property called Icon. This will change it.

[HostMike]

Im not using Visual Studio, how would I change the icon in SharpDevelop??

[mutant]

I dont know about sharp develop but here is how you can change it in code:

Me.Icon = New Icon("iconfilepath")

[HostMike]

Nevermind

 

Figured It Out!

[dynamic_sysop]

to add a new icon in c-sharp you can do this :

private void menuItem1_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
	this.Icon=new Icon("C:\\7.ico"); '/// your icon path where it says "C:\\7.ico"
}

just incase anyone's interested :)

[HostMike]

hmm, another question, my program will crash if i do not move the icon file with the application, I was hoping that the icon would get compiled right into the code and then be pulled from there, what should I do?? I tried including the file in the project (using sharpdevelop .95) but it did not work. Any suggestions??

[divil]

Yeah, get a better IDE :P

 

Seriously, all you have to do is embed the icon in your project and then retrieve it at runtime and assign it to the form. SharpDevelop's Form Editor should take cake of this for you - if it's not, I would suggest posting on their forums as this seems to be an IDE issue.

[_SBradley_]

C#

 

[*]Embed the icon file as a resource in the application executable, using the appropriate command-line switch: /res:Blah.ico

[*]Set the form's icon, something like this:

Icon = new Icon(GetType().Assembly.GetManifestResourceStream("Blah.ico"));

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Voilà!

[HostMike]

how do i add that code in VB.NET??

[mutant]

Dim ico As New Icon(System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly.GetManifestResourceStream("NamespaceName.YourIcon.ico"))

Substitute the NamespaceName with the name of the namespace your project is in.