Application icon a letter as myapp icon

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I want to use a character as my
App icon.
Can someone help me do that.

Say the letter A be my app icon
How do that in vb.net

Thank you in advsnced.

That's not what I mean.

I compile my app with a command
Line outside VStufio.

I need a binary characters that
Emulate the letter say A.

Thank you again.

What I have tried:

Nothing I don't know how to do that.

Posted 23-Oct-19 3:05am

Member 13569650

Updated 23-Oct-19 3:28am

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Member 13569650 23-Oct-19 10:36am

I have an app with an icon that
I want it in another app is there
A hack for this.

Thank you.

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Solution 2

I can recommend the Greenfish icon editor: free-icon-editor[^]
Also see: Creating a Glossy Windows Icon[^]
Also see: How to: Specify an application icon (Visual Basic, C#) - Visual Studio | Microsoft Docs[^]

If you want to hack your applications icon from the command line, which is a bit weird, this might do the trick: Resource Hacker[^]

Posted 23-Oct-19 3:24am

RickZeeland

Updated 23-Oct-19 4:01am

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Member 13569650 23-Oct-19 10:21am

Thank you very much.

I'll try this resource hack.
It's new for me.

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Dave Kreskowiak · Accepted Answer · 2019-10-23T03:17:00

Solution 1

Google - "Letter icons"[^]

Posted 23-Oct-19 3:17am

Dave Kreskowiak

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Member 13569650 23-Oct-19 10:18am

Thank you.
I need something else.

Dave Kreskowiak 23-Oct-19 10:31am

Uhhh... Google results are nothing but a list of "something else".

You didn't specify what "something else" actually means are what you really want to do.

Member 13569650 23-Oct-19 10:51am

I write my vb in notepad text editor
And compile it with a command line.

In this condition is it possible
To set an icon to my app.

Or some free software to install
An icon to app.exe application.

Thank you.
And I am apologies because
I haven't experience of using
Code project site.

Richard Deeming 23-Oct-19 11:02am

If you're compiling using the command-line vbc compiler, you can use the win32icon option to specify the icon for your application:
-win32icon | Microsoft Docs[^]

Dave Kreskowiak 23-Oct-19 11:50am

Writing code in Notepad? That's commendable. I did that way back in 2001.

But, you don't have to. You can use the free version of Visual Studio, the Community Edition, found at Free IDE and Developer Tools | Visual Studio Community[^].

Member 13569650 23-Oct-19 13:51pm

Yes Dave you right .
But I do that because I need this
In my work at the company.
And there I haven't any tool and
I can't bring exe files only text
File that's the security affairs in
My company.

Thank you again.

Member 13569650 24-Oct-19 7:26am

I tried compile with win32icon but
this insert the icon in the file name
and not in the top left of the form.

Dave Kreskowiak 24-Oct-19 7:54am

You have to set the Icon property of your Form in your code.
Form.Icon Property (System.Windows.Forms) | Microsoft Docs[^]

Member 13569650 24-Oct-19 15:09pm

Dave I am very much appreciated
your help.

I succeed to set my icon in both the exe file name and
in the form.

Thank you.

Member 13569650 25-Oct-19 1:53am

Dave I appreciate your help.
I wrote that two times.

And I don't see that.
Because I don't know how to
Use this site. Sorry.

Member 13569650 25-Oct-19 10:18am

Now I see that the icon file must be present in my computer
in order to be set. Is there a way to resolve this.
my setting is as follows:
Private Sub ehRegExForm_Load(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
'Dim Ico As New System.Drawing.Icon("C:\_nx11_\journal\ehRegExTester\alef.ico")
Dim Ico As New System.Drawing.Icon("alef.ico")
Me.Icon = Ico
End Sub

Thanks

Dave Kreskowiak 25-Oct-19 10:50am

The only way around that is to include the icon as a Resource in the project. Resources are compiled into the resulting .EXE.

You're also going to have to modify the code to retrieve the icon from Resources instead of from a file. Something like:

        internal static System.Drawing.Icon Icon1 {
            get {
                object obj = ResourceManager.GetObject("Icon1", resourceCulture);
                return ((System.Drawing.Icon)(obj));
            }
        }

Member 13569650 26-Oct-19 12:20pm

Dave I am very thank you.

I think I keep icon file with
the exe file.

Until I found a work around.
Thank you again.

Member 13569650 27-Oct-19 0:20am

See if you can help in this.
The following code is from stack overflow.
' code for drawing the icon on the form, at x=20, y=20 '
Dim g As Graphics = Me.CreateGraphics()
Dim theIcon As Icon = LoadIconFromFile("C:\path\file.ico")
g.DrawIcon(theIcon, 20, 20)
g.Dispose()
theIcon.Dispose()

Private Function LoadIconFromFile(ByVal fileName As String) As Icon
    Dim result As Icon
    Dim assembly As System.Reflection.Assembly = Me.GetType().Assembly
    Dim stream As System.IO.Stream = assembly.GetManifestResourceStream((assembly.GetName().Name & ".file.ico"))
    result = New Icon(stream, New Size(48, 48))
    stream.Dispose()
    Return result
End Function

I tried it and I get this error:
Stream can't be null.

Thank you.

Dave Kreskowiak 27-Oct-19 12:03pm

Probably because LoadIconFromFile is getting the icon from Resources, not an actual file. You might want to look at the CSC command line you used to make sure your adding the .ico file into the target .EXE resources.

If you don't know what I'm talking about, run CSC /? for the command line options for CSC and you'll see a short section for "RESOURCES".

-resource (C# Compiler Options) | Microsoft Docs[^]

Member 13569650 28-Oct-19 1:00am

Dave thank you very much.

I used vbc and not csc do this matter?

In vbc there also a resource option do I can use this option with the resource file from visual studio.

Dave Kreskowiak 28-Oct-19 9:06am

VBC is the Visual Basic compiler and CSC is the C# compiler. Two very different langauges.

Member 13569650 28-Oct-19 11:12am

Ok thank you.

I think we discussed it's enough.

Hello and thanks.

Member 13569650 24-Oct-19 15:00pm

Dave I am very much appreciated
your help.

I succeed to set my icon in both
the exe file name and in the form.
Thank you very much.