I am currently creating an application in Visual Studio 2010. After building the project to generate the output of my application, I find that the .exe is built with the default icon.
Is there any way to change or use my own picture as the icon for the .exe file generated by Visual Studio 2010?
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The icon file is added to your project as a content file.
Check the project properties. It's configurable there if you are using another .net windows application for example
I found it easier to edit the project file directly e.g. YourApp.csproj.
You can do this by modifying ApplicationIcon
property element:
<ApplicationIcon>..\Path\To\Application.ico</ApplicationIcon>
Also, if you create an MSI installer for your application e.g. using WiX, you can use the same icon again for display in Add/Remove Programs. See tip 5 here.
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