how to overlay icons in C#, .NET

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Can anybody please help me with a code sample or a solution to overlay icons in C#.Net?

Thanks in Advance.

here are few screen shots of the way i want it to be.
http://www.imageuploading.net/images/11044/picture-with-new-folders
http://www.imageuploading.net/images/11043/snapshot-with-new-files-2cnew-folders-and-one-old-folder

Posted 19-May-11 20:16pm

freakosandy

Updated 29-May-11 20:40pm

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OriginalGriff 20-May-11 2:19am

What have you tried?
Google?
Anything yourself?

freakosandy 20-May-11 2:21am

i found a solution in c++, but i need it in C#. you have any solutions?? tried googling a lot. no luck :(

freakosandy 20-May-11 2:22am

also i found a COM coding in C# but then i have no idea of coding in COM :(

Dalek Dave 20-May-11 3:22am

Edited for Grammar.

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Dave Kerr · Answer 1 · 2013-02-13T09:43:00

Solution 5

See this for creating shell overlay icons in .NET:

.NET Shell Extensions - Shell Icon Overlay Handers[^]

Posted 13-Feb-13 9:43am

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 2 · 2011-05-19T20:48:00

Solution 1

You don't need icons. Icons are special multi-page resources which contain images of different resolution in the same file, typically 16x16 and 32x32. This is needed for collaboration with Windows and Shell. In applications, icons are only uses as application icons (so the application is shown correctly in the system tray and file managers/dialogs) and windows icons. With icons, OS selects the image of appropriate resolution. If you use icons anywhere else, their properties would be redundant. Technically, you can use them, but there is not reason for doing that.

For all other cases, bitmaps should be used. Icons also support transparent colors, but so do bitmaps if you store them as PNG.

There is no problem of overlay them. You can use bitmaps in control rendering using System.Drawing.Graphics.DrawImage or System.Windows.Forms.PictureBox.

—SA

Posted 19-May-11 20:48pm

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

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freakosandy 20-May-11 2:52am

Your answer
sorry i was not clear in my question. my project should do something like this. for example.i add a new folder or file(willl handle it internally whether the file is new or old). now when the file is new.i wan a green tick mark on that particular file or folder(tick marks is another .ico file).

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 20-May-11 3:20am

Still not clear. Can you reflect other people thoughts? Imagine someone explains this to you. Would you understand it?
--SA

freakosandy 20-May-11 3:27am

ok i will post a screenshot and explain it to you

freakosandy 20-May-11 4:38am

i've updated the question. please go through it

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 20-May-11 23:24pm

OK, I guess I see what do you mean, so: do you need to extract icons from the applications? Why you're interested in overlay?
--SA

subha@m9online 28-Oct-11 3:05am

have you got solution for your question im too searching for this

freakosandy 28-Oct-11 3:07am

the only way possible is by using com coding.

Ramalinga Koushik · Answer 3 · 2011-05-19T21:25:00

Solution 3

Hope How to overlay an icon over existing shell objects in 3 easy steps[^] an article from CP might help you.

Posted 19-May-11 21:25pm

Ramalinga Koushik

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freakosandy 20-May-11 3:29am

i need it in c# ram :(

ambarishtv · Answer 4 · 2011-05-29T20:29:00

Solution 4

icon overlay sample code shows in this link
icon overlay[^]

Posted 29-May-11 20:29pm

ambarishtv