Using icons in windows applications
Today I came across the same problem that I have had many times earlier: I need a new icons in an application, this time for a refresh button. So what do I do? I Google it ofcourse and get hundreds of hits to all kind of crappy icon libraries, most of the costing me a fortune!
So then I discovered a very nice but hidden treasure in my VS 2005 installation, and gigantic and free set of icons! Finding this through a search on MSDN is very hard as Microsoft has called this an image library instead of icon library, but once I discovered this everything became much simpler.
In mye quest for free icons, I also came across this nice overview of all icons in the MS library:
http://www.student.blek.cz/2011b/svobodakarel/PRO/VS2005ImageLibrary/bitmaps/commands/pngformat/_MS32bitColorPNGCommandArt%20-%20Readme.html
The icons are located in a file called VS2005ImageLibrary.zip and contains over 1000 images/icons!!
The file follows the VS installatio here:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\VS2005ImageLibrary
Sweet!
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