How to copy icons used by VS?

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Hello out there,
in an article about a toolbox
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/miscctrl/toolbox.aspx
I found the sentence
I copied the icons and tabs from the real ToolBox ...
and in the project's resource file there is an ImageList which
presumably contains them.
How can this be done?
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In VS 2005, there is a folder called "x:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual
Studio 8\Common7\VS2005ImageLibrary" which contains a Zip file with a ton of
graphics, some icons, some bitmaps. For 2008, it's "x:\Program
Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\VS2008ImageLibrary\<your locale>".
 
Jeff Johnson said:
In VS 2005, there is a folder called "x:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual
Studio 8\Common7\VS2005ImageLibrary" which contains a Zip file with a ton
of graphics, some icons, some bitmaps. For 2008, it's "x:\Program
Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\VS2008ImageLibrary\<your
locale>".
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These folders do not contain Visual Studio-specific icons, rather they
contain Windows-specific icons.

-Scott
 
Hi Jeff,
In VS 2005, there is a folder called "x:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual
Studio 8\Common7\VS2005ImageLibrary" which contains a Zip file with a ton of
graphics, some icons, some bitmaps. For 2008, it's "x:\Program
Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\VS2008ImageLibrary\<your locale>".
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thanks, found them.
Best regards
Helmut Giese
 
Hi Scott,
These folders do not contain Visual Studio-specific icons, rather they
contain Windows-specific icons.
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you're both right: :)
- In ...\icons one finds in fact all kinds of "general" Windows icons,
however in
- ...\bitmaps\outline\24bitcolor I find bitmaps like
control_button.bmp, which looks exactly like the bitmap on the ToolBox
- apart from a ghastly pinkish background that is.
Best regards
Helmut Giese
 
Hi Jeff,
Isn't that Fuschia or something similar, it's the transparency colour.
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you are a lot faster than I am. :)
I just went back to VS, got an imagelist and - to my surprise - there
is this 'TransparentColor' property, and when I switched to the
'Custom' tab and eventually arrived at opening the part where you can
define any ol' color by entering its RGB value(s), and entered 255 - 0
- 255, and then handed it over to VS - Yessir, VS named it Fuchsia.

Ok, so now I know, too.
Best regards
Helmut Giese
 
I stand corrected. I don't think prior versions of VS had these and I
assumed that 9.0 didn't either.

-Scott
 
I stand corrected. I don't think prior versions of VS had these and I
assumed that 9.0 didn't either.
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VS 2005 (a prior version) was the first to introduce this file, I believe,
and it definitely has IDE-specific images in it. VS .NET 2003 looks like it
just has the old (and ugly) VB library of graphics.
 
Hi Jeff,
you are a lot faster than I am. :)
I just went back to VS, got an imagelist and - to my surprise - there
is this 'TransparentColor' property, and when I switched to the
'Custom' tab and eventually arrived at opening the part where you can
define any ol' color by entering its RGB value(s), and entered 255 - 0
- 255, and then handed it over to VS - Yessir, VS named it Fuchsia.

Ok, so now I know, too.
Best regards
Helmut Giese
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Web Color = Magenta (at least through 2005)
 
apart from a ghastly pinkish background that is.
Web Color = Magenta (at least through 2005)
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???
I described the steps I took - and arrived at 'Fuchsia'.
What is the significance of 'Web Color' here? (We're talking
transparency.)
Best regards
Helmut Giese
 
???
I described the steps I took - and arrived at 'Fuchsia'.
What is the significance of 'Web Color' here? (We're talking
transparency.)
Best regards
Helmut Giese
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The "official" transparent color has been "Magenta" since the days of 16
color palletes.

If you select the "Web" tab on colors, you can select Magenta from the
list. Fuchsia and Magenta map to the same values, but I stick with Magenta
out of habit.

Brad
 
The "official" transparent color has been "Magenta" since the days of 16
color palletes.

If you select the "Web" tab on colors, you can select Magenta from the
list. Fuchsia and Magenta map to the same values, but I stick with
Magenta
out of habit.
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Me too.
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