Vb6 Change Program Icon
Would like to ask how can i set my own icon instead of default icon displayed by vb.net? Thanks in advance. It seems hard to find a solution in Google as i don't know.
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- VB6 program icon? I'm learning VB and searched, but cannot find the reference. I want to change the icon of the application from the tacky windows 3.1 looking graphic to an ico file.
I have a Windows 7 application where I need to change the icon displayed on the main form and the icon that is displayed by Windows on the taskbar at runtime. In code I am simply changing the Form.Icon property and this works no problem if I run the app from the EXE. The icon changes in the form and on the taskbar no problem. However, if I run the app from a desktop shortcut the icon only changes in the main form and the icon shown on the taskbar never changes. Apparently Windows is loading the taskbar icon from a cache. The only suggestions I can find on how to refresh the cached taskbar icon are to delete the iconcache and then restart windows.
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This solution obviously will not work for changing the icon at runtime. Does any one know how change the taskbar icon at runtime for an app launched via a desktop shortcut???
I am guessing there are some api functions that will work, but I cannot figure it out. I thought of a very easy work-around that might work for others. My underlying problem was due to how Windows caches the icons of application shortcuts. This was preventing me from changing the taskbar icon at runtime. Which is certainly possible.
So instead of having the start shortcut pointing directly at the main application exe, I am pointing the shortcut to a launcher application that shells out to the main application. This way, the main application exe is never launched from a shortcut. Thus, the icon on the taskbar can be changed at runtime. This is working very well for me. Please see my comment to the question. Now, just some notes.
The form icon is a different thing, you can really change it easily during runtime. It may even make some sense (different mode of operation, different part of functionality). The icon shown in the Taskbar is a different thing, it is called application icon.
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As OS uses it, it should be stored in the PE module (file) in some universal way, not specific to.NET. The application icon is actually build in application manifest. For an assembly, this is stored in a module, the one holding an application manifest for the assembly. (Visual Studio supports only creation of the assembles with one module per assembly, but compiling on lower level will allow you to have more then one per assembly, but only one of them will hold the manifest; it's called 'main assembly module'.) The MSBuild uses the icon file in this build step:. That said, unlike the form icon, this icon is readonly. And, as you should know, the executable module loaded for execution cannot be modified, no matter how high your permissions are. This is an important protection feature of most modern OS.
And even if you could change this icon by some means (no, I don't think it's possible), it would defeat the purpose of them. OS controls rely on this icon to keep your application well-recognizable; it would not get any notifications if you could change it, because this is not how things are designed. When answering a question please:. Read the question carefully. Understand that English isn't everyone's first language so be lenient of bad spelling and grammar. If a question is poorly phrased then either ask for clarification, ignore it, or edit the question and fix the problem. Insults are not welcome.
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Don't tell someone to read the manual. Chances are they have and don't get it. Provide an answer or move on to the next question. Let's work to help developers, not make them feel stupid.