Change default icon

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I m trying to change the application icon from default to something else  So what I did  is I made an icon and saved it  Then I went to the application tab in the property of my project and changed the icon  There he shows the icon like I made it  but when I run my project it shows a gray icon instead of showing my icon   What i m doing wrong here

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Run it not through Visual Studio  - then the icon should look just fine    I believe it is because when you debug  Visual Studio runs  lt yourapp gt  vshost exe and not your application  The  vshost exe file doesn t use your icon     Ultimately  what you have done is correct    Go to the Project properties under Application tab change the default icon to your own Build the project Locate the  exe file in your favorite file explorer    There  the icon should look fine  If you run it by clicking that  exe the icon should be correct in the application as well

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you should put your icon on the project folder  before build it

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Go to form s properties  ICON     Choose an icon you want   EDIT  try this   Edit App Ico to make it look like you want  In the property pane for your form  set the Icon property to your project s App Ico file  Rebuild solution    And read this one icons

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The Icon property for a project specifies the icon file   ico  that   will be displayed for the compiled application in Windows Explorer and   in the Windows taskbar       The Icon property can be accessed in the Application pane of the   Project Designer  it contains a list of icons that have been added to   a project either as resources or as content files       To specify an application icon         With a project selected in Solution Explorer  on the Project menu   click Properties    Select the Application pane    Select an icon   ico  file from the Icon drop-down list          To specify an application icon and add it to your project         With a project selected in Solution Explorer  on the Project menu    click Properties    Select the Application pane    Select Browse from the Icon drop-down list and browse to the   location of the icon file that you want          The icon file is added to your project as a content file and can be   seen on top left corner    And if you want to show separate icons for every form you have to go to each form s properties  select icon attribute and browse for an icon you want   Here s MSDN link for the same purpose     Hope this helps

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If you are using Forms you can use the icon setting in the properties pane  To do this select the form and scroll down in the properties pane till you see the icon setting  When you open the application it will have the icon wherever you have it in your application and in the task bar

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Build the project Locate the  exe file in your favorite file explorer

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I had the same problem  I followed the steps to change the icon but it always installed the default icon   FIX  After I did the above  I rebuilt the solution by going to build on the Visual Studio menu bar and clicking on  rebuild solution  and it worked

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If your designated icon shows when you run the EXE but not when you run it from Visual Studio  then  for a WPF project add the following at the top of your XAML   Icon  Images MyIcon ico   Put this just where you have the Title  and xmlns definitions    Assuming you have an Images folder in your project  and that you added MyIcon ico there

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Your application icon shows in the taskbar  The icon on the topleft  window  is the form-icon  Go to your form and fill the property  icon  with the same icon  problem solved  You don t need to put the icon in the outputfolder  that s just for setups

[c#] Change default icon

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