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You can set the icon from the project properties, 
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Double click on My Project - Application Tab and select the icon you want.
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I need to access it through code because I will set the Main form's icon to the application's icon at runtime.
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Ok, another way:<br />
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Dim ico As New System.Drawing.Icon(&quot;c:\my<wbr />Icon.ico&quot;)<wbr /><br />
Me.Icon = ico <br />

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&gt;&gt; sound like my way<br />
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I didn't sow your post! :)<br />
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Sorry
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Thanks for all the suggestions.<br />
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What I am trying to do is to get the application's icon.<br />
i.e.<br />
Using My.Application.Info.Descri<wbr />ption, I can get the application's description which was set by opening the project properties in design mode. How can I get the application's icon which was also set through the project's properties.
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application icon is stored in an unmanaged portion of the exe file, outside the assembly itself (but still inside the exe), so you cannot retrieve it using any .net class/method.<br />
You will require complex WinAPI Resource functions to read it.<br />

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you can do with LoadIcon, if you know the name of the icon. First declare this Winapi function:<br />
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Public Shared Function LoadIcon( _<br />
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;ByVal hInstance As IntPtr, _<br />
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;ByVal lpIconName As String) As IntPtr<br />
End Function<br />
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then you can use as:<br />
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Me.Icon = Icon.FromHandle( LoadIcon(Microsoft.VisualB<wbr />asic.Compa<wbr />tibility.V<wbr />B6.GetHIns<wbr />tance, &quot;iconname.ico&quot;) )<br />
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Notice that upper/lower case can be significative.<br />
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Where should I put the Winapi function declaration? <br />
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If I put it inside a class, it says &quot;Type 'DllImport' is not defined&quot;. <br />
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If I put it outside a class, it says &quot;Statement is not valid in a namespace&quot;
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you will need:<br />
Imports System.Runtime.InteropServ<wbr />ices<br />
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put inside a class.<br />

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I now get &quot;'Compatibility' is not a member of 'VisualBasic'&quot;.
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if it doesn't work, replace with<br />
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Me.Icon = Icon.FromHandle( LoadIcon(Marshal.GetHINSTA<wbr />NCE(Me.Get<wbr />Type().Mod<wbr />ule), &quot;iconname.ico&quot;) )<br />

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How do I access the project's application icon? I want to set the Main form's icon to be the same as the application's icon.
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How do I access the project's application icon? I want to set the Main form's icon to be the same as the application's icon.

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