Changing the default icon in a Windows Forms application

Question

I need to change the icon in the application I am working on  But simply browsing for other icons from the project property tab -  Application -  Icon  it is not getting the icons stored on the desktop    What is the right way of doing it

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The icons you are seeing on desktop is not a icon file. They are either executable files .exe or shortcuts of any application .lnk. So can only set icon which have .ico extension.

Go to Project Menu -> Your_Project_Name Properties -> Application TAB -> Resources -> Icon

browse for your Icon, remember it must have .ico extension

You can make your icon in Visual Studio

Go to Project Menu -> Add New Item -> Icon File

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Add your icon as a Resource  Project   yourprojectname Properties   Resources   Pick  Icons from dropdown   Add Resource  or choose Add Existing File from dropdown if you already have the  ico   Then   this Icon   Properties Resources youriconname

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The Simplest solution is here  If you are using Visual Studio  from the Solution Explorer  right click on your project file  Choose Properties  Select Icon and manifest then Browse your  ico file

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On the solution explorer  right click on the project title and select the  Properties  on the context menu to open the  Project Property  form  In the  Application  tab  on the  Resources  group box there is a entry field where you can select the icon file you want for your application

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Select your project properties from Project Tab Then Application- Resource- Icon And Manifest- change the default icon  This works in Visual studio 2019 finely Note Only files with  ico format can be added as icon

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The Icon displayed in the Taskbar and Windowtitle is that of the main Form  By changing its Icon you also set the Icon shown in the Taskbar  when already included in your   resx   System ComponentModel ComponentResourceManager resources        new System ComponentModel ComponentResourceManager typeof MyForm    this Icon     System Drawing Icon  resources GetObject  statusnormal Icon        or  by directly reading from your Resources   this Icon   new Icon  Resources statusnormal ico      If you cannot immediately find the code of the Form  search your whole project  CTRL SHIFT F  for the shown Window-Title  presuming that the text is static

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I added the  ico file to my project  setting the Build Action to Embedded Resource  I specified the path to that file as the project s icon in the project settings  and then I used the code below in the form s constructor to share it  This way  I don t need to maintain a resources file anywhere with copies of the icon  All I need to do to update it is to replace the file   var exe   System Reflection Assembly GetExecutingAssembly    var iconStream   exe GetManifestResourceStream  Namespace IconName ico    if  iconStream    null  Icon   new Icon iconStream

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I found that the easiest way is    Add an Icon file into your WinForms project  Change the icon files  build action into Embedded Resource In the Main Form Load function   Icon   LoadIcon   lt  the file name of that icon file

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Once the icon is in a  ICO format in visual studio I use    This uses the file u give it to make an icon    Icon icon   Icon ExtractAssociatedIcon String    pulls icon from  ico and makes it then icon object     Assign icon to the icon property of the form  this Icon   icon    so in short   Icon icon   Icon ExtractAssociatedIcon  FILE Path     this Icon   icon     Works everytime

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You can change the app icon under project properties  Individual form icons under form properties

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select Main form - gt  properties - gt  Windows style - gt  icon - gt  browse your ico  this Icon     System Drawing Icon  resources GetObject  quot  this Icon quot

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