I\'m trying to change the application icon from default to something else. So what I did, is I made an icon and saved it. Then I went to the application tab in the property
I had the same problem. I followed the steps to change the icon but it always installed the default icon.
FIX: After I did the above, I rebuilt the solution by going to build on the Visual Studio menu bar and clicking on 'rebuild solution' and it worked!
If your designated icon shows when you run the EXE but not when you run it from Visual Studio, then, for a WPF project add the following at the top of your XAML: Icon="Images\MyIcon.ico". Put this just where you have the Title, and xmlns definitions. (Assuming you have an Images folder in your project, and that you added MyIcon.ico there).
Your application icon shows in the taskbar. The icon on the topleft (window) is the form-icon. Go to your form and fill the property "icon" with the same icon; problem solved. You don't need to put the icon in the outputfolder (that's just for setups).