Icon Trouble in C#

[ewokspy]

I am having 2 seperate concerns regarding icons in C#.NET 2003

I have an icon that I created in VS. Easily enough I can attach this to a form or system tray object, etc. But if I take the icon and attach it to the system tray icon, it shows up just fine. But the (same) icon I attach to the form doesn't show up correctly, instead looking like the default icon picture. Any idea why this would happen?

Secondly, how does one attach an icon to the .exe? I'm using the installer in .NET to install my program but I don't see a place for the icon.

Thanks.

[Plater]

You are in luck, as I have done a bunch of work figuring out the icon stuff. (Since it's not intuitive)
I wrote an article about it:
http://www.thescripts.com/forum/thread648181.html

The article is pretty poorly written though (sorry!).

The basic thing to know is that when you create an icon in VS it starts out with TWO images stored in it. One is like 16x16 and the other is 32x32 (or 64x64 I forget) And editing one does not effect the other.
So while you made this nice icon in say the "32x32" size, the 16x16 is still the default picture. You can switch to it by right-clicking on the image preview on the left side of the image editor.

To attach the icon to an exe, the "program icon", you need to go to thr project properties and find the icon place where you can list it.

[ewokspy]

My search fu was obviously weak this time around.

Thank you, that solved all of my icon problems. :D