what i refer to by "system's default icons" are the icons i see in say apps like office. the open/new/save icons. i wonder if i can somehow reference these? because they seem like a standard icon. or do i have to find those icons from the net and put them into my apps?
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A:
From this blog post by Brad Abrams back in 2006:
A customer recently asked me if they can use the standard Microsoft explorer icons in their applications. The answer is yes! In fact Soma blogged about the extended set of Icons we have in VS2005, but basically you can find the VS 2005 Image Library at %vs install path%/common7/ide/vs2005imagelibrary/vs2005imagelibrary.zip. The Windows, Office, and Visual Studio icons that we license for reuse are all contained in there.
Yes it's talking about VS 2005, but the same will apply for VS 2008 and VS 2010. For me (with VS 2008) the path is:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\VS2008ImageLibrary\1033\VS2008ImageLibrary.zip
I've just installed VS2010 and the path is:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\VS2010ImageLibrary\1033\VS2010ImageLibrary.zip
ChrisF
2010-08-23 13:24:09
Great link! Did not know something like that is publicly available - although, obviously, it was on my hard drive already... :)
gehho
2010-08-23 14:50:00
ooo ... i cant find it in VS2010
jiewmeng
2010-08-31 15:50:33
@jiewmeng - I don't have vs 2010 installed so I can't double check. You could try searching for "*imagelibrary.zip"
ChrisF
2010-08-31 17:35:09