Changing the default icon in a Windows Forms application

c# visual-studio winforms
Srivastava picture Srivastava · Nov 26, 2010 · Viewed 192.5k times · Source

I need to change the icon in the application I am working on. But simply browsing for other icons from the project property tab -> Application -> Icon, it is not getting the icons stored on the desktop..

What is the right way of doing it?

Answer

Javed Akram picture Javed Akram · Nov 26, 2010

The icons you are seeing on desktop is not a icon file. They are either executable files .exe or shortcuts of any application .lnk. So can only set icon which have .ico extension.

Go to Project Menu -> Your_Project_Name Properties -> Application TAB -> Resources -> Icon

browse for your Icon, remember it must have .ico extension

You can make your icon in Visual Studio

Go to Project Menu -> Add New Item -> Icon File

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