Missing Icons With EXE

[Andy]

I have an application (.exe) that is running in the system tray. When a
message arrives: the icon in the system tray is to change so that the user
knows a message has arrived.

My question is: how can I deploy .ico files with an application? I would
like to just send the people the .exe file and they can run that on their
computer. Is this possible? What code would I need to ensure this?

This works locally on my machine, but I have the paths hardcoded for
testing.

Thanks for any help
Andy

[Tyron Madlener]

Andy wrote:

I have an application (.exe) that is running in the system tray. When a
message arrives: the icon in the system tray is to change so that the user
knows a message has arrived.

My question is: how can I deploy .ico files with an application? I would
like to just send the people the .exe file and they can run that on their
computer. Is this possible? What code would I need to ensure this?

This works locally on my machine, but I have the paths hardcoded for
testing.

Thanks for any help
Andy

You can compile the icons into to your app as a resource and then
accessing the icons with a System.Resources.ResourceManager

[Andy]

Tyron:

Thank you for the post. I added the icon files and compiled it as a
resource object, but I am having a little problem with the code accessing the
files.

System.Resources.ResourceManager rm = new
System.Resources.ResourceManager(typeof(System.Dra wing.Icon));
notifyIcon.Icon = (System.Drawing.Icon)rm.GetObject("red.ico");

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks
Andy

"Tyron Madlener" wrote:

Andy wrote:

I have an application (.exe) that is running in the system tray. When a
message arrives: the icon in the system tray is to change so that the user
knows a message has arrived.

My question is: how can I deploy .ico files with an application? I would
like to just send the people the .exe file and they can run that on their
computer. Is this possible? What code would I need to ensure this?

This works locally on my machine, but I have the paths hardcoded for
testing.

Thanks for any help
Andy

You can compile the icons into to your app as a resource and then
accessing the icons with a System.Resources.ResourceManager

[Andy]

Thank you for the response. I added the icon files as resources, however:
for some reason I am not able to access them in the code.

System.Resources.ResourceManager rm = new
System.Resources.ResourceManager(typeof(System.Dra wing.Icon));
notifyIcon.Icon = (System.Drawing.Icon)rm.GetObject("red.ico");

Any idea what I might be doing wrong?

Thanks

"Tyron Madlener" wrote:

Andy wrote:

I have an application (.exe) that is running in the system tray. When a
message arrives: the icon in the system tray is to change so that the user
knows a message has arrived.

My question is: how can I deploy .ico files with an application? I would
like to just send the people the .exe file and they can run that on their
computer. Is this possible? What code would I need to ensure this?

This works locally on my machine, but I have the paths hardcoded for
testing.

Thanks for any help
Andy

You can compile the icons into to your app as a resource and then
accessing the icons with a System.Resources.ResourceManager

[polym]

On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 12:27:24 -0700, "Andy"
<An**@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

Thank you for the response. I added the icon files as resources, however:
for some reason I am not able to access them in the code.

System.Resources.ResourceManager rm = new
System.Resources.ResourceManager(typeof(System.Dr awing.Icon));
notifyIcon.Icon = (System.Drawing.Icon)rm.GetObject("red.ico");

Any idea what I might be doing wrong?

Thanks

System.ComponentModel.ComponentResourceManager resources = new
System.ComponentModel.ComponentResourceManager(typ eof(frmFormName));

this.toolStripButton1.Image =
((System.Drawing.Image)(resources.GetObject("toolS tripButton1.Image")));

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