>>>>>>>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
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>>In VS just open the .res file (using File/Open)
>>Locate the icon that you want to extract.
>>Right Click , choose Export.....
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>Hi Viv, sorry I didn't word my question very well - what I meant to ask was - now that I've embedded some icons / cursors / images etc... - how can I access them at runtime - I basically want to give certain groups of users different icons / background images etc... at runtime

I don't think there's a simple way of retrieving from the Win32 resource file but if you add the icons to the embedded resources you could just use:

this.Icon = (Icon)WindowsFormsApplication1.Properties.Resources.ResourceManager.GetObject("RESOURCENAME");

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