How can I get the app icon?

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Marc Scheuner [MVP ADSI]

Folks,

I am trying to find a way (hopefully nice'n'clean, no hack) to get the
app's icon in a .NET app.

I can see that the resulting EXE has an app icon - my Win32 resource
tool shows it, no problem.

But how can I access that program icon (the one being displayed in
Windows Explorer - *NOT* the icon on the main form) ? I would like to
write a .NET shell that contains other apps / assemblies, and I'd like
to show their program icons in a list view (like Win Explorer).

All I find is stuff on how to access the .NET resources - stuff that's
stored in MyNameSpace.MyForm.resources - but the app icon doesn't seem
to reside there......

Any takers? Any tutorials on how to access the program icon in a .NET
app?

Thanks!
Marc

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Marc Scheuner May The Source Be With You!
Bern, Switzerland m.scheuner(at)inova.ch
 
Folks,

I am trying to find a way (hopefully nice'n'clean, no hack) to get the
app's icon in a .NET app.

I can see that the resulting EXE has an app icon - my Win32 resource
tool shows it, no problem.

But how can I access that program icon (the one being displayed in
Windows Explorer - *NOT* the icon on the main form) ? I would like to
write a .NET shell that contains other apps / assemblies, and I'd like
to show their program icons in a list view (like Win Explorer).

All I find is stuff on how to access the .NET resources - stuff that's
stored in MyNameSpace.MyForm.resources - but the app icon doesn't seem
to reside there......

Any takers? Any tutorials on how to access the program icon in a .NET
app?
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How do I get the associated Icon from a file in the file system?
http://www.syncfusion.com/faq/winforms/search/660.asp
 
How do I get the associated Icon from a file in the file system?
http://www.syncfusion.com/faq/winforms/search/660.asp
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That works, thanks Patrick.

But I'm still amazed and puzzled that .NET doesn't natively support at
least reading its own icons (from the currently running assembly) -
seems like such a basic function everyone will use at some point in
time! ;-)

Marc

================================================================
Marc Scheuner May The Source Be With You!
Bern, Switzerland m.scheuner(at)inova.ch
 
Marc said:
That works, thanks Patrick.

But I'm still amazed and puzzled that .NET doesn't natively support at
least reading its own icons (from the currently running assembly) -
seems like such a basic function everyone will use at some point in
time! ;-)
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But its not a .NET resource, its a native resource!

However, you would have thought that since you can add a native resource
through Reflection.Emit.ModuleBuilder.DefineUnmanagedResource there would be
a corresponding API to get access to such resources.

Richard
 
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