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I've got an icon for one of my applications, which I've embedded in a resource file and is used as the main icon for the application. So far so good. However, I want to use the same icon for the installer project, and for the shortcut that the installer places in the Start Menu. I can set the icon for the installer package itself, but only if I add the icon as an .ico file in the main application folder. The whole point of embedded the icon in a resource file is so that I don't have an ICO file floating around in Program Files. I can't access the resource file from the main project in the