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programatically change icon on folder

Hi Experts,

I have a program where the user creates a project consisting of a Access database and some pictures. I collect all files for a project in a folder and want it to look a little bit more professional by changing the icon of the folder to my own. How do I do that? I want to assign my own icon to the folder when I create it...

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Perry

tiagosalgado

I've found this example but it's in C#.
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/files/foldericonsincsharp.aspx
Say something if you need help converting to vb.net

FER_G

PerryDaynac; you have to add a file "Desktop.ini" into the folder that you want to change the icon
Then add the next code to that file ...

[.ShellClassInfo]
IconFile=c:\someIcon.ico
IconIndex=0

close and save the file "Desktop.ini" and your folder will have the icon that you deside.
All of this, you can do it with VB...

FerG
Saludos.
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Ing. Fernando D. Giletta
San Fco. Cba. Argentina.

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PerryDaynac

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Brilliant Fernando!!
Works like a clock...
I have another question up about protecting the folder with a password, if you know how to do that aswell
Thank You

Member_2_1348041

Excellent

Member_2_1348041

It doesn't like programmatical setting of system file attributes, but you can use SyncShell (or if you don't want to go find SyncShell on the web, just plain old "Shell") to do this quite easily. This will set the attributes of Desktop.ini to both "system" and "hidden"

It's not necessary to set the folder path to read only, btw?

SyncShell "cmd.exe /c attrib """ & sFolderPath & "\Desktop.ini"" +s +h", vbHide