Got .PNG file. Want embeffffded icon resource displayed as icon on form title bar

Question

This was an interview question. Given Visual Studio 2008 and an icon saved as a .PNG file, they required the image as an embedded resource and to be used as the icon within

Answer 1

Fire up VS, start new Windows Application. Open the properties sheet, add the .png file as a resource (in this example: glider.png ). From hereon, you can access the resource as a Bitmap file as WindowsFormsApplication10.Properties.Resources.glider

Code for using it as an application icon:

 public Form1()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
            Bitmap bmp = WindowsFormsApplication10.Properties.Resources.glider;
            this.Icon = Icon.FromHandle(bmp.GetHicon());
        }