Application Icon problem when group together in taskbar

[jmbernz]

I really need help with this one, I'm trying to set the app icon during run time. There is no problem when the app is not group together, it still have the set icon but when group together if you look at the taskbar, you saw the default icon. I'm using VB.NET, here is the code:

Public Sub SetIcon(ByVal strIcon As String)
Dim thisExe As System.Reflection.Assembly = _
System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly() _
Dim v_AssemblyName As String = thisExe.GetName.Name & "."

Dim Asm As System.Reflection.Assembly = _
System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly
Dim s As System.IO.Stream
Select Case strIcon.ToUpper()
Case "icon1"
s = Asm.GetManifestResourceStream(v_AssemblyName _
& "icon1.ico")
Case "icon2"
s = Asm.GetManifestResourceStream(v_AssemblyName _
& "icon2.ico")
Case "icon3"
s = Asm.GetManifestResourceStream(v_AssemblyName _
& "icon3.ico")
End Select

Me.Icon = New Icon(s)
s.Close()
End Sub

[jmbernz]

Anyone? Any idea.

[jmbernz]

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[Dude1]

I had this problem too, that I got a default icon and unwanted text when the taskbar grouped the applications. Took some time to figure it out.

Individual icons and titles

If you want to change the individual application's textual name during runtime, just go into the form's code and use this.Text = "Some Text"; (Me.Text = "Some Text" for VB.NET) whenever you'd like to change the text. This you might want to do if you open a file in your program and want the title to reflect this.

The individual form icon you set in design mode by setting the Icon property of the form. Simply click the form's border and find the Icon property in the Properties window.

Group icon and title

Now, for taskbar grouping, you need to go to the AssemblyInfo.cs file and edit the values AssembyTitle (perhaps also AssemblyDescription), for instance

[assembly: AssemblyTitle("My Application")]

. This is the text that will appear when taskbar is grouping applications, no matter what individual applications are called.

You can set the group icon if you, in Visual Studio 2005, set the value of Project/[...] Properties.../Application/Resources/Icon to a icon file.