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Whidbey icon set

Hi guys!

I'm putting the finishing touches on an add-in for VS 2005 and I would like to use the same kind of icons used in Whidbey; I don't want to confuse the user with different icons for common tasks (as in buttons for displaying open file dialogs etc).

Can I use, say the #59 smiley face on a TreeNode in a TreeView If so, do I load the resources from some dll manually or is there an api to do it

Are there any licensing problems

I have sifted through the msdn docs, googled a bit etc but haven't found what I'm looking for, maybe I'm looking in the wrong places...

Any hint would be greatly appreciated :)

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Whidbey icon set

  • osos

    > they don't seem to use the alpha channel for transparency

    That's because it's still beta. I read in a blog on MSDN that the final version will support alpha transparency.



  • PaulLinton

    Look into your folder Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2\Common7, you'll find a zip file called VS2005ImageLibrary. Microsoft has finally updated the icons they release with Visual Studio, and you can use those in your applications.

  • JamieNstuff

    Thanks Daniel, the answer was right under my nose :)

    However, these icons (while looking a whole lot better than the old icon set) doesn't seem to be the real deal: they don't seem to use the alpha channel for transparency and the set doesn't seem to be complete.

    Since an add-in is totally dependent on the visual studio environment, it seems like a natural thing to reuse the vs icons instead of distributing another set of less attractive/different icons.

    There must be some way to access these icons programatically, just the way it's done by setting an icon id when the commandbars are created. Any ideas anyone

    Cheers!
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