Making Dll Icon Set

Thank you; that helps for understanding what you are asking.

So is this not for a program you wrote? I ask this because if you wrote the program, it is possible to put the icons into the exe file for your program. I assume you are doing this for icons in the Windows Explorer; is that correct?

I am not sure of the details of how to do it, but if I understand what you are doing, then you are looking for instructions for creating a Resource-Only DLL as described in Creating a Resource-Only DLL. If that is what you are looking for, then there might be easier solutions.

I want to use my own icons instead of the OEMs that are located in SHELL32.dll. I need to know what program I can use to make a .dll that will contain the icons I have made up. This way when I right click to change a folder icon, I will go to a .dll file that will contain my made up icons and not the OEM set of icons. I downloaded Visual Studio 2010 andthought that could be used to make my .dll up. Am I going in the right direction? Thanks for any help.....