AboutBoxIcon, how do I change?

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WALDO - 31 Jan 2005 18:09 GMT

When you go through the wizard to create an add-in for VS.Net, you get the
option of including an AboutBoxIcon, and it says that you can chanfe it
later. I have located the area in the registry where this is stored. I just
want some info about updating it.

Is it just the binary values (byte array) of a .ico file saved on the disk?
If I look at the .reg file that was created by the wizard so I could recrate
my add-in state, it looks like some hex values. is this just the hex values
of the byte array? Is it base64-encoded text?

If that's the case, then can I simply create a .ico file and just read it
into a byte array and persist it to the registry?

Thanks in advance.
WALDO

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Carlos J. Quintero [.NET MVP] - 01 Feb 2005 13:31 GMT

The AboutBoxIcon can store icon information in 4 ways:

- "#<resource ID>": in this case, you specify an icon of the satellite DLL
of the add-in.
- "<path_to_icon_file>": a path to a file with the icon
- "<path_to_exe_file>,<resource ID>"a path to an executable with the icon
- the binary data of the icon directly, in the form of an array of bytes.

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> When you go through the wizard to create an add-in for VS.Net, you get the
> option of including an AboutBoxIcon, and it says that you can chanfe it
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> Thanks in advance.
> WALDO

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WALDO - 01 Feb 2005 14:52 GMT

Wow. I didn't know all that.
What .Net classes can I use to read win32 resources out of a binary file. I
did see one add-in in my registry that had values for the friendly name as
#106. I figured it must be embedded in the satellite dll as a win32
resource, but hadn't confirmed it. I figure I'll just use regular
expressions to figure out which type they are.

if registry entry is string type then
^\#\d+$ - win32 resource in satellite dll
^.*?(\.(exe|dll))\,\d+$ - win32 in binary
^.*?\.ico$ - icon file
else if registry entry is byte array (binary) then
read into byte array
write to memory stream
create icon from stream
end if

> The AboutBoxIcon can store icon information in 4 ways:
>
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> > Thanks in advance.
> > WALDO

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Peter Macej - 02 Feb 2005 10:34 GMT

> The AboutBoxIcon can store icon information in 4 ways:
>
> - "#<resource ID>": in this case, you specify an icon of the satellite DLL
> of the add-in.
> - "<path_to_icon_file>": a path to a file with the icon
> - "<path_to_exe_file>,<resource ID>"a path to an executable with the icon

Does it really work? I tried <path_to_icon_file>, no success. I found
that for example AnkhSVN addin uses <path_to_exe_file>,<resource ID>
approach but it also shows no icon. I tried it with both VS 2002 and VS
2003. Only binary array works for me.

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Carlos J. Quintero [.NET MVP] - 02 Feb 2005 18:57 GMT

I don´t know, I read it on the book "Inside Microsoft Visual Studio .NET
2003"...

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>> The AboutBoxIcon can store icon information in 4 ways:
>>
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> but it also shows no icon. I tried it with both VS 2002 and VS 2003. Only
> binary array works for me.

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