Icon files

[Lou]

if I add a new item (Solution Items) to my project and its an icon(.ico),
how can I reference that file when I am coding, Do I have to also add it to
an image control, I don't want the file to be part of the .resx file.
Its like VB6 when I could use load all my images from a resource file.
Lou

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

"Lou" <lo********@com cast.net> schrieb:

if I add a new item (Solution Items) to my project and its an icon(.ico),
how can I reference that file when I am coding, Do I have to also add it
to
an image control, I don't want the file to be part of the .resx file.
Its like VB6 when I could use load all my images from a resource file.

See:

<URL:http://groups.google.d e/group/microsoft.publi c.dotnet.langua ges.vb/msg/7f73b72ab0a8845 2>

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M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
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[AMercer]

> if I add a new item (Solution Items) to my project and its an icon(.ico),

how can I reference that file when I am coding

The easiest thing to do is as follows.

1. Add the .ico file(s) to your project.
2. For each icon file, set the build action to "embedded resource". This
will include the .ico file in your .exe file (my direct experience is only
with windows form .exe files, but I expect this will work with other app
types).
3. In your program, you can get an icon object via the code fragment shown
below. If the name of the icon file xxx.ico, and the name of your app is
yyy, then the name of the icon resource in your .exe file is "yyy.xxx.ic o".

dim s as string = "yyy.xxx.ic o" ' your names replace yyy and xxx
dim MyIcon = New
Icon(System.Ref lection.Assembl y.GetExecutingA ssembly.GetMani festResourceStr eam(s))

Now you can set a form's icon like: someform.Icon=M yIcon.

[Lou]

Where do I set the build Action?
"AMercer" <AM*****@discus sions.microsoft .com> wrote in message
news:6E******** *************** ***********@mic rosoft.com...

if I add a new item (Solution Items) to my project and its an icon(.ico),
how can I reference that file when I am coding

The easiest thing to do is as follows.

1. Add the .ico file(s) to your project.
2. For each icon file, set the build action to "embedded resource". This
will include the .ico file in your .exe file (my direct experience is only
with windows form .exe files, but I expect this will work with other app
types).
3. In your program, you can get an icon object via the code fragment
shown
below. If the name of the icon file xxx.ico, and the name of your app is
yyy, then the name of the icon resource in your .exe file is
"yyy.xxx.ic o".

dim s as string = "yyy.xxx.ic o" ' your names replace yyy and xxx
dim MyIcon = New
Icon(System.Ref lection.Assembl y.GetExecutingA ssembly.GetMani festResourceStr eam(s))

Now you can set a form's icon like: someform.Icon=M yIcon.

[Lou]

Under "Solutions Items" folder I have 1 file
MyIcon.ico
There is no property to set the build action for that icon that I can find?

"AMercer" <AM*****@discus sions.microsoft .com> wrote in message
news:6E******** *************** ***********@mic rosoft.com...

if I add a new item (Solution Items) to my project and its an icon(.ico),
how can I reference that file when I am coding

The easiest thing to do is as follows.

1. Add the .ico file(s) to your project.
2. For each icon file, set the build action to "embedded resource". This
will include the .ico file in your .exe file (my direct experience is only
with windows form .exe files, but I expect this will work with other app
types).
3. In your program, you can get an icon object via the code fragment
shown
below. If the name of the icon file xxx.ico, and the name of your app is
yyy, then the name of the icon resource in your .exe file is
"yyy.xxx.ic o".

dim s as string = "yyy.xxx.ic o" ' your names replace yyy and xxx
dim MyIcon = New
Icon(System.Ref lection.Assembl y.GetExecutingA ssembly.GetMani festResourceStr eam(s))

Now you can set a form's icon like: someform.Icon=M yIcon.

[CT]

You need to add it to the project and not the solution, as it will compiled
as part of the project assembly.

--
Carsten Thomsen
Communities - http://community.integratedsolutions.dk
---------
Voodoo Programming: Things programmers do that they know shouldn't work but
they try anyway, and which sometimes actually work, such as recompiling
everything. (Karl Lehenbauer)
---------
"Lou" <lo********@com cast.net> wrote in message
news:eT******** *****@TK2MSFTNG P14.phx.gbl...

Under "Solutions Items" folder I have 1 file
MyIcon.ico
There is no property to set the build action for that icon that I can
find?

"AMercer" <AM*****@discus sions.microsoft .com> wrote in message
news:6E******** *************** ***********@mic rosoft.com...

if I add a new item (Solution Items) to my project and its an
icon(.ico),
how can I reference that file when I am coding

The easiest thing to do is as follows.

1. Add the .ico file(s) to your project.
2. For each icon file, set the build action to "embedded resource".
This
will include the .ico file in your .exe file (my direct experience is
only
with windows form .exe files, but I expect this will work with other app
types).
3. In your program, you can get an icon object via the code fragment
shown
below. If the name of the icon file xxx.ico, and the name of your app is
yyy, then the name of the icon resource in your .exe file is
"yyy.xxx.ic o".

dim s as string = "yyy.xxx.ic o" ' your names replace yyy and xxx
dim MyIcon = New
Icon(System.Ref lection.Assembl y.GetExecutingA ssembly.GetMani festResourceStr eam(s))

Now you can set a form's icon like: someform.Icon=M yIcon.

[Lou]

I managed to add the icon to the proj and set its action to embedded but the
code
dim MyIcon = New
Icon(System.Ref lection.Assembl y.GetExecutingA ssembly.GetMani festResourceStr eam(s))
returns null

"AMercer" <AM*****@discus sions.microsoft .com> wrote in message
news:6E******** *************** ***********@mic rosoft.com...

if I add a new item (Solution Items) to my project and its an icon(.ico),
how can I reference that file when I am coding

The easiest thing to do is as follows.

1. Add the .ico file(s) to your project.
2. For each icon file, set the build action to "embedded resource". This
will include the .ico file in your .exe file (my direct experience is only
with windows form .exe files, but I expect this will work with other app
types).
3. In your program, you can get an icon object via the code fragment
shown
below. If the name of the icon file xxx.ico, and the name of your app is
yyy, then the name of the icon resource in your .exe file is
"yyy.xxx.ic o".

dim s as string = "yyy.xxx.ic o" ' your names replace yyy and xxx
dim MyIcon = New
Icon(System.Ref lection.Assembl y.GetExecutingA ssembly.GetMani festResourceStr eam(s))

Now you can set a form's icon like: someform.Icon=M yIcon.

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

"Lou" <lo********@com cast.net> schrieb:

Under "Solutions Items" folder I have 1 file
MyIcon.ico
There is no property to set the build action for that icon that I can
find?

Add the icon to the /project/, select it in solution explorer and set the
build action in the property window.

--
M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://classicvb.org/petition/>

[Lou]

This method does not seem to work or I can't get it to work?

I added an icon file to my project
I set it to "embedded resource" and added the code below in the proper
format but
it returns null.
There doesn't seem to be anything else to look for?

There must be something missing?

-Lou

"AMercer" <AM*****@discus sions.microsoft .com> wrote in message
news:6E******** *************** ***********@mic rosoft.com...

if I add a new item (Solution Items) to my project and its an icon(.ico),
how can I reference that file when I am coding

The easiest thing to do is as follows.

1. Add the .ico file(s) to your project.
2. For each icon file, set the build action to "embedded resource". This
will include the .ico file in your .exe file (my direct experience is only
with windows form .exe files, but I expect this will work with other app
types).
3. In your program, you can get an icon object via the code fragment
shown
below. If the name of the icon file xxx.ico, and the name of your app is
yyy, then the name of the icon resource in your .exe file is
"yyy.xxx.ic o".

dim s as string = "yyy.xxx.ic o" ' your names replace yyy and xxx
dim MyIcon = New
Icon(System.Ref lection.Assembl y.GetExecutingA ssembly.GetMani festResourceStr eam(s))

Now you can set a form's icon like: someform.Icon=M yIcon.

[CT]

Make sure s contains the fully namespace qualified name of the icon file,
i.e. if the name of your project is Test (assuming you didn't specify a
different namespace) and the name of the file is res.ico, then assign
"Test.res.i co" to s.

--
Carsten Thomsen
Communities - http://community.integratedsolutions.dk
---------
Voodoo Programming: Things programmers do that they know shouldn't work but
they try anyway, and which sometimes actually work, such as recompiling
everything. (Karl Lehenbauer)
---------
"Lou" <lo********@com cast.net> wrote in message
news:%2******** ********@tk2msf tngp13.phx.gbl. ..

I managed to add the icon to the proj and set its action to embedded but
the code
dim MyIcon = New
Icon(System.Ref lection.Assembl y.GetExecutingA ssembly.GetMani festResourceStr eam(s))
returns null

"AMercer" <AM*****@discus sions.microsoft .com> wrote in message
news:6E******** *************** ***********@mic rosoft.com...

if I add a new item (Solution Items) to my project and its an
icon(.ico),
how can I reference that file when I am coding

The easiest thing to do is as follows.

1. Add the .ico file(s) to your project.
2. For each icon file, set the build action to "embedded resource".
This
will include the .ico file in your .exe file (my direct experience is
only
with windows form .exe files, but I expect this will work with other app
types).
3. In your program, you can get an icon object via the code fragment
shown
below. If the name of the icon file xxx.ico, and the name of your app is
yyy, then the name of the icon resource in your .exe file is
"yyy.xxx.ic o".

dim s as string = "yyy.xxx.ic o" ' your names replace yyy and xxx
dim MyIcon = New
Icon(System.Ref lection.Assembl y.GetExecutingA ssembly.GetMani festResourceStr eam(s))

Now you can set a form's icon like: someform.Icon=M yIcon.