Vista - Application icon to Window

Hi,
I have set up an application icon in the project properties. Now, how can I
use it in the application window?

Thanks,
Jan

In MSDN, there is written:
-------------------------------
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) standalone applications have two types
of icons:
- One assembly icon, which is specified by using the <ApplicationIcon>
property in the application's project build file. This icon is used as the
desktop icon for an assembly.
- One icon per window that is specified by setting Icon. For each window,
this icon is used in its title bar, its task bar button, and in its ALT-TAB
application selection list entry.
A WPF window always displays an icon. When one is not provided by setting
Icon, WPF chooses an icon to display based on the following rules:
- Use the assembly icon, if specified.
- If the assembly icon is not specified, use the default Microsoft Windows
icon.
--------------------------------
I checked project file, and there is
<ApplicationIcon>Resources\Icon.ico</ApplicationIcon>

However, the window still uses the default icon....


"Jan Kucera" <kucera@lupacovka.cz> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> I have set up an application icon in the project properties. Now, how can
> I use it in the application window?
>
> Thanks,
> Jan

Hi,

Jan Kucera wrote:
> Hi,
> I have set up an application icon in the project properties. Now, how
> can I use it in the application window?
>
> Thanks,
> Jan

You can use the following attribute in the Window tag:

<Window x:Class="..."
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
Icon="GalaSoft.ico">

HTH,
Laurent
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Hi, thanks for reply.
At first, this does not do the trick which is described in MSDN (using icon
defined in project properties if none is set to window), but what is worse,
this does not work to me. I have a file Resources\Icon.ico embedded as
ApplicationIcon resource in Properties\Resources.resx and I cannot manage to
display it. Simply <Window Icon="Resources\Icon.ico"> does not work, neither
"Resources/Icon.ico" does, nor "ApplicationIcon", all of these throws
exceptions. ("Cannot locate resource 'resources/icon.ico'.")

By the way, if I type absolute path to the icon in this attribute, it throws
"The image format is unrecognized." at runtime, but it normally compiles as
project icon. (The icon has 16x16 XP, 32x32 XP and 256x256 XP format).

Jan


"Laurent Bugnion" <galasoft-lb@bluewin.ch> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> Jan Kucera wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I have set up an application icon in the project properties. Now, how can
>> I use it in the application window?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jan
>
> You can use the following attribute in the Window tag:
>
> <Window x:Class="..."
> xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
> xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
> Icon="GalaSoft.ico">
>
> HTH,
> Laurent
> --
> Laurent Bugnion, GalaSoft
> Software engineering: http://www.galasoft-LB.ch
> PhotoAlbum: http://www.galasoft-LB.ch/pictures
> Support children in Calcutta: http://www.calcutta-espoir.ch

Have you tried it without the "Resources/" prefix? I'm wondering if the
subdirectory info is stripped out when the resource gets compiled & embedded
into the app. If not, another thing to try is the pack format:
"pack://application,,,/Resouces/Icon.ico"

Hi,
Icon.ico fails inside Cider and both during run-time.
Pack format throws parser Exception whose InnerException is {"Exception has
been thrown by the target of an invocation."} so I don't see what the
problem is.

Though, this would not do the application -> window trick...
Thanks for try.

"Keith Patrick" <richard_keith_patrick@nospam.hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Have you tried it without the "Resources/" prefix? I'm wondering if the
> subdirectory info is stripped out when the resource gets compiled &
> embedded into the app. If not, another thing to try is the pack format:
> "pack://application,,,/Resouces/Icon.ico"
>
>
>

Jan,

Using VS2005, I did the following:
* I created a brand new wpf windows application project in WPF (with
application definition and one window).
* I added a new icon and customized it (with a smiley face .
* I specified the icon as the application icon eg
<ApplicationIcon>Icon1.ico</ApplicationIcon>

When I debugged the app from VS2005, Window did not pick up the application
icon. However, when I ran the built assembly directly from the desktop ie
outside of VS2005, the icon was picked up. Are you seeing this behavior?
"Jan Kucera" wrote:

> Hi,
> Icon.ico fails inside Cider and both during run-time.
> Pack format throws parser Exception whose InnerException is {"Exception has
> been thrown by the target of an invocation."} so I don't see what the
> problem is.
>
> Though, this would not do the application -> window trick...
> Thanks for try.
>
> "Keith Patrick" <richard_keith_patrick@nospam.hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:O3fj0GmKHHA.420@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> > Have you tried it without the "Resources/" prefix? I'm wondering if the
> > subdirectory info is stripped out when the resource gets compiled &
> > embedded into the app. If not, another thing to try is the pack format:
> > "pack://application,,,/Resouces/Icon.ico"
> >
> >
> >
>