>>>>>Hi All, I've added several icons as embedded resources into my exe using the resource editor, however if I right click a shortcut to my.exe and select change icon / browse to my.exe - only the icon I set in the icon and manifest tab of the projects' properties tab is shown ? any ideas ?
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>>>>http://www.codeproject.com/KB/dotnet/embedmultipleiconsdotnet.aspx
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>>>Thanks Viv, I actually read that article ( obviously not properly ! ) and couldn't get it to work - I was looking in the wrong place for Properties ! thanks again it works perfectly
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>>Sorry. Just noticed that the link was based on VS2005 but sounds like you found the right place to add the resource file to the app...
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>Hi Viv, having successfuly created Resource.res - do you know how to extract an icon / cursor from one ? I've googled away but can't find much of use

In VS just open the .res file (using File/Open)
Locate the icon that you want to extract.
Right Click , choose Export.....