C# console application icon

Question

Does anyone know how to set a C# console application\'s icon in the code (not using project properties in Visual Studio)?

Answer 1

You can't specify an executable's icon in code - it's part of the binary file itself.

From the command line you'd use /win32icon: if that's any help, but you can't specify it within the code of the application. Don't forget that most of the time the application's icon is displayed, your app isn't running at all!

That's assuming you mean the icon for the file itself in explorer. If you mean the icon of the application while it's running if you just double-click the file, I believe that will always just be the icon for the console itself.