application icon

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Jimmy

Hey

Ive made an application, and now i want an icon to appear in the file
explorer right beside the filename (as most applications have). I want it to
be an icon i make myself. I have made it as a .jpg file, but i dont know how
to do this, so that it will be my programs icon. Hope you understand what i
mean?

Tried to find some information on it, but i cant seem to find any other than
for desktop applications. And even there i dont really understand whats
going on.

Anyone knows how to do this?
 
You need to have the file as an icon (.ico) file. In a VB.NET project you
set the icon in Project Settings > Common Properties > Build > Application
icon - set to the path of your ico file.

In C# its Project Settings > Common Properties > General > Application Icon

Visual Studio has a very basic icon editor built in and you can add an icon
to your project and use the built in tool to edit it. To convert your jpg
file you could copy and paste it once you have created an icon with the same
colour depth and size.

On the device you will probably need to soft-reset after deploying the
updated exe since Windows CE caches the icons displayed.

Peter

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Hey.

Found the setting relatively quickly (C#), but had some problems figuring
out how to use the icon editor. Found out that i just had to make a new icon
file.

Very easy and very simple, and once again you gave me all the answers to
accomplish what i wanted.

No matter what they are paying you, its to little!!! ;)

Thanks :)

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