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Associating an Embedded Icon with Application's DocumentsIn <http://groups-beta.google.com/group/microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.csharp/msg/05abaf8460c61859>, back in 2003, "SleazySt" wrote that > Unfortunately, C# projects can't have resource scripts. Is this still true? I am trying to associate an icon with my> Resources added to .NET applications by adding them to > the project and designating them an "Embedded Resource" > are included in a new .NET-specific format that's not > compatible with previous methods. The only icon you > can correctly embed in your application using C# on > VS.NET is the application icon, accessible from the > project properties. If you need additional icons -- > e.g. an icon to represent a document file handled > by your app rather than to represent the app itself > -- you'll need to either include the ICO files > themselves, or compile a DLL with C++ with your > icons embedded. documents; I'm using the Inno Setup installer <http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php> and finding that its instructions for associating a file based on an embedded icon don't work for the second icon in the file, although they work for the first icon. I would prefer not to clutter my users' disks with any more files than necessary, so the embedded resource route looks nice - if it will work. Thanks, --Carl |
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