Usercontrol custom icon in toolbar VS2008 C#

Shahzad Chaudhry

15y4.2k.NET

I have created usercontrol and i can see in toolbar but my own icon or bitmap image is not displaying for usercontrol. I have already used [ToolboxBitmap(typeof(MyUserControl), "MyIcon.icon")] but still default icon is displayed. I have also set Build Action of image to embedded resource. Regards

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Shahzad Chaudhry15y ago
Dear,
Now i have created new simple solution and tried to implement custom icon for usercontol in toolbar but only default gear icon is displayed here is the sample application in VS2008.
Reagrds,
Shahzad
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Shahzad Chaudhry15y ago
Dear Zoran Horvat, I have separate dll of controls, controls are displayed in toolbox in standard gear icon but my custom icons are not displayed in toolbar. I have a set the build action of bitmap to embeded resource and also added namespace with Myicon [ToolboxBitmap(typeof(MyUserControl), "MyNamespace.MyIcon.bmp")] and after doing this i have rebuild my project many times and even restarted my system and cleaned the cache but problem has not yet resolved. Regards
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Sam Hobbs15y ago
I am not sure about icons, but I know that the toolbox sometimes is not updated until after I have done a build of the project that the UserControl is in. Try doing a build and if that does not work do a rebuild all for the project and if that does not work, exit from VS and then go back in.
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Zoran Horvat15y ago
Toolbox sometimes caches icons so changes in files containing embedded icon do not reflect immediately. Try to remove the control from the toolbox and then to add it again. I know that the same thing happened to me several times in the past.

Zoran
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