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Standard Microsoft Icons

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A customer recently asked me if they can use the standard Microsoft explorer icons in their applications. The answer is yes! In fact Soma blogged about the extended set of Icons we have in VS2005, but basically you can find the VS 2005 Image Library at %vs install path%/common7/ide/vs2005imagelibrary/vs2005imagelibrary.zip. The Windows, Office, and Visual Studio icons that we license for reuse are all contained in there.

We’d love to hear feedback on what is missing, what you found really valuable, etc.

Comments

  • Anonymous
    June 06, 2006
    The image library is great, but I was a little disappointed that it only contains 16x16 bitmaps for toolbar buttons. I like to use 24x24 as my standard "toolbar image" size. Maybe that's just a personal thing, I dunno.

    In the commercial world, people like GlyFX (www.glyfx.com) are doing a great job. They supply all their images in multiple sizes (16 and 24 in the "small" packs, and 32 up to 64 in the "large", IIRC), and in multiple formats (including PNGs with alpha channels).

    That's the sort of thing I'd love to see in an "official" image library from MS.
  • Anonymous
    June 06, 2006
    Mine appears at:

    %VSInstallPath%Common7VS2005ImageLibrary

    as

    VS2005ImageLibrary.zip

    What is very useful is the HTML readme in each directory that previews all the bitmaps for you.
  • Anonymous
    June 06, 2006
    If i own a copy of VS2005 and I am making an application that runs on a non windows platform (the application is not coded in VS 2005), then can I still use Image library's icons on this application? I am making a windows version in VS 2005, but the non windows version is obviously not coded in VS.
  • Anonymous
    June 06, 2006
    thanks for all up to date software
  • Anonymous
    June 06, 2006
    I had a suggestion on the MSDN Product Feedback site, to issue a "refresh" of the image library with Vista images/icons once Vista ships.  The bug was marked as "closed/postponed", so who knows if it'll ever happen.

    The image library is a good idea... so it would be great to be able to (legally) create Vista apps that use the same images as Vista...
  • Anonymous
    June 07, 2006
    The Visual Studio 2005 image library is good, but it's not enough. I always wondered why Microsoft releases so much source code and yet so little graphic material. Does anybody know?
  • Anonymous
    June 07, 2006
    Agree with only 16x16 bitmaps.  My users really need to be able to make the buttons larger on the resolution they're working on, 24x24 and/or 32x32 would be GREAT.

    Would you be able to make available (before the next SP) a fix for the icons with a black background (commands/32bitcolor for example.  i.e. fixed icons with a magenta background).  I, for one, would really appreciate it.

    It would also be nice if all the commands sub-directories contained all the same icons.  Some icons are 16-color only, some are 24-bit only, some are 32-bit only.

    Also, my image library path is also %VSInstallPath%Common7VS2005ImageLibrary
  • Anonymous
    June 21, 2006
    The icon selection is kind of quirky - why are there icons for Bold and Italic, but not Underline?
  • Anonymous
    June 24, 2006
    I definitely agree with the 16x16 comment - shell32 contains most of these in much higher resolution; it'd be great to have all of these in all their various resolutions!
  • Anonymous
    June 27, 2006
    For those of us that need to create our own icons, are there rules or tools available for how to recreate a similar look and feel to Windows / Office buttons.  Personally, I need to create some unique images that have the same look as Office 2003 buttons.
  • Anonymous
    June 29, 2006
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