Working with system icons in C# application

Question

Where can I find all system icons used in Windows XP/Vista/7? Is it possible?

I tried using SHGetStockIconInfo(), but it returns only some icons.

Answer 1

For Windows 7 you can find many of the icons here:

%SystemRoot%\system32\DDORes.dll
%SystemRoot%\system32\imageres.dll
%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll

I wouldn't recommend extracting them and using them though as that would be a copyright violation I think.

You can get a whole bunch of windows images within Visual Studio as explained here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms246582.aspx

The Visual Studio 2010 Image Library contains application images that appear in Microsoft Windows, the Office system, Microsoft Visual Studio, and other Microsoft software. You can use this set of over 1,000 images to create applications that look visually consistent with Microsoft software.

EDIT:

Requested Visual Studio 2008 version:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms246582(v=vs.90).aspx

And for completeness the Visual Studio 2005 version:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms246582(v=vs.80).aspx