Where's the Icon Designer?

This is one of the limitations of the Express editions :-( The Icon Designer is not included, and neither is the Visual Studio 2005 Image Library that contains numerous icons.

In Visual Basic Express, you can add an existing icon in the Resource designer, and if you double-click it it will open in Paint where you can modify it. If you have another application for editing icons you can associate that with the .ico file type instead.

Hope this helps,
Steve Hoag

shoagMSFT at 2007-9-9 >

shoagMSFT wrote:

In Visual Basic Express, you can add an existing icon in the Resource designer, and if you double-click it it will open in Paint where you can modify it.

After modifying the icon with paint and saving it as a .ico file I always get the error "Argument 'picture' must be a picture that can be used as a Icon".

Peter

pgloor at 2007-9-9 >

I found a freeware icon creator/editor at the following url: http://www.tucows.com/preview/217176

Hope this helps?

Regards,
Splinta

Splinta at 2007-9-9 >

Hi all newbie..

Stuck on p 85 of the learning book vbexpress, assembly info...browse for icon files but can't find any.

Guess thats the same question thats asked here. Is there any .ico files (don't care what) that can be accessed downloaded just to test the system as it is ? ( and then move onto next chapter......!) Tried search for icon files didnt get anything. Win XP

br Phil

mirren_st at 2007-9-9 >

Hi pete

I am new to vb and I am glad I can be of help......

If you download ( Liberty Basic ) trial version......it includes an icon editor which does not expire after trial period

cheers

bronco

BRONCOLANE at 2007-9-9 >