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Getting rid of application's default ugly icon

Is there any way to get rid of that ugly blown-up blue window icon that
appears on all of my VB.net executables? I would rather just have the
system's default application icon, like in C# and C++.

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Best Regards,

Mark Seymour
ma**********@li ve.ca

Aug 2 '08 #1
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Marks,

Depends on where, as you use forms it is simple setting the icon property to
an icon of your own.

Cor

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Is there any way to get rid of that ugly blown-up blue window icon that
appears on all of my VB.net executables? I would rather just have the
system's default application icon, like in C# and C++.

--
Best Regards,

Mark Seymour
ma**********@li ve.ca
Aug 3 '08 #2
On Aug 3, 2:46 am, "MarkS" <markseymour... @hotmail.comwro te:
Is there any way to get rid of that ugly blown-up blue window icon that
appears on all of my VB.net executables? I would rather just have the
system's default application icon, like in C# and C++.

--
Best Regards,

Mark Seymour
mark.seym...@li ve.ca
In project's properties page -Application, look at "Icon" and choose
"browse" to use which icon you wish to use.

Plus, if you want to change icon displayed on title bar or
notification icon at runtime, you can use Me.Icon property like in
that article:
(Me.Icon = New Icon("c:\<icon_ name>.ico")
http://www.vb-helper.com/howto_net_form_icons.html

Hope this helps,

Onur Güzel
Aug 3 '08 #3
if you want you can set the cursor the same way
with a 256colorsIcon
me.cursor=....

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On Aug 3, 2:46 am, "MarkS" <markseymour... @hotmail.comwro te:
>Is there any way to get rid of that ugly blown-up blue window icon that
appears on all of my VB.net executables? I would rather just have the
system's default application icon, like in C# and C++.

--
Best Regards,

Mark Seymour
mark.seym...@l ive.ca

In project's properties page -Application, look at "Icon" and choose
"browse" to use which icon you wish to use.

Plus, if you want to change icon displayed on title bar or
notification icon at runtime, you can use Me.Icon property like in
that article:
(Me.Icon = New Icon("c:\<icon_ name>.ico")
http://www.vb-helper.com/howto_net_form_icons.html

Hope this helps,

Onur Güzel
Aug 3 '08 #4

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