New/updated Icon Sets with Visual Studio 2005

re: New/updated Icon Sets with Visual Studio 2005

Denny — Mon, 24 Jan 2005 00:44:00 GMT

Sounds GREAT!!!

PS: .ico in multi icon format??
so that the right version is there for different client screens??

like 16x16, 32x32, 48x48
and color depth 256,16bpp, 24bpp

dev's tend not to be that great at tweaking Gfx bits....

re: New/updated Icon Sets with Visual Studio 2005

Donna Wallace — Mon, 24 Jan 2005 01:41:00 GMT

Hi Denny
I'm the designer putting together the library... and yes, .ico is the format that contains multiple images. We appreciate any feedback you have on the new icon sets....
cheers,
dw

re: New/updated Icon Sets with Visual Studio 2005

Michael Swanson — Mon, 24 Jan 2005 02:16:00 GMT

This is excellent news!

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RJ — Mon, 24 Jan 2005 03:25:00 GMT

Very nice. No more raiding shell32.dll!

I look forward to using those with the new MenuStrip class.

re: New/updated Icon Sets with Visual Studio 2005

ShadowChaser — Mon, 24 Jan 2005 04:21:00 GMT

Great news! I really appreciate all the time and effort that has gone into the new icon library - I get a few "feedback update alerts" *every* day so there definately is a lot of activity with it!

Thanks!

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Uwe Keim — Mon, 24 Jan 2005 04:23:00 GMT

Thank you!

re: New/updated Icon Sets with Visual Studio 2005

Josh Koppang — Mon, 24 Jan 2005 04:39:00 GMT

I hate to admit it, but this is in the top 5 of my favorite new features for VS 2005. I was disappointed when VS 2003 didn't have updated icons.

re: New/updated Icon Sets with Visual Studio 2005

Richard Tallent — Mon, 24 Jan 2005 05:37:00 GMT

This is huge, guys, thanks for addressing this issue. This is *exactly* what I asked for in a blog post about a year ago:

http://www.tallent.us/blog/commentview.aspx?guid=07824e84-b4cf-42f6-8341-5f33bd300e91

Any possibility of including anti-aliased PNG as well? IE's support requires a workaround, but they'll look MUCH nicer than indexed GIFs.

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Randomize — Mon, 24 Jan 2005 08:38:00 GMT

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Jason — Mon, 24 Jan 2005 09:04:00 GMT

At last! :-)

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Dave — Mon, 24 Jan 2005 09:46:00 GMT

One question - why the _hell_ has it taken so long? Some of us devs have been crying out for updated sets since Visual Studio '98.

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Greg — Mon, 24 Jan 2005 15:56:00 GMT

Rock on!

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Dru — Tue, 25 Jan 2005 22:15:00 GMT

YES!

I'll have the Visual Studio with some icons on the side please

McBlog — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 02:09:00 GMT

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Donna Wallace (Dev Div Ux Team) — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 19:30:00 GMT

Great to hear the positive feedback on the library! To answer the question about "what took you so long"... I guess the answer is that in VS7.1 we didn't have a huge outcry for new images - it wasn't until we designed the new hybrid style post-WinXP and Office products rolled to high color that it became more urgent. The plan for Whidbey was always to include the new library with Beta2, which is when most of the VS icon upgrade was complete. I do have a question for you: the current plan is to copy the library to disk during install as a .zip file, which you will then need to unzip. The end result will be a structure organized by image type and usage. Does this seem reasonable? Also - to clarify an earlier comment - most of the images are in .bmp format (not .ico) since that is what we use when we build VS UI. There are some .ico files included, but they are the minority.

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Eddy Recio — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 06:22:00 GMT

Donna,

I think that is perfect solution. Ico files require extra handling in .NET because most controls strip out the alpha channel and the end result is a nasty globular outline. Icon files normally work best for Windows forms as the Icon. Sorry, I know it sounds obvious but other bitmap formats work best 90% of the time for most application specific imagery. And as far as the pre-Zipped with a folder hierarchy, again great idea! Yet another reason to look forward to Beta2!

Eddy

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Mr. Dew — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 19:34:00 GMT

This would be great news and it certainly makes sense. Microsoft wants developers to make applications that look and feel like an application of Windows XP, not of some Windows 95 stuff. They even included the documentation to show how you can make desktop icons look like Windows XP ones. Going one step further to provide the toolbar's icon is a sensible choice.

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SPH — Sun, 13 Feb 2005 12:46:00 GMT

I think it would also be a good idea to allow developers to create derivative/partially copied icons from the ones supplied, so that matching icons can be legally created when necessary.

There will be occasions when developers will need something specific which could not be covered by a general purpose library. In this case, developers will need to author icons. Sometimes, the only way to do this consistently would be to slightly modify an existing icon or even combine two existing icons.

I'd like the license to allow this.

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Mike — Sun, 13 Feb 2005 20:16:00 GMT

Am I missing something ? I think the new images require in alpha channel for antialiasing on any background. Bitmaps "supports" an alpha channel by using a 32 bit depth but this format seems not to be loaded corectly by System.Drawing.Bitmap (it loses it's alpha channel).

re: New/updated Icon Sets with Visual Studio 2005

Daryl — Mon, 14 Feb 2005 16:00:00 GMT

This is a good interim solution, and sorely needed. However, it's not actually the right long-term solution. What *should* happen is that support for "standard" buttons should be added to the Windows Theme system.

If this were done, people could load a "metallic" theme on their Longhorn desktop, and things like the Back button on their browser would change their appearance automatically. There's no reason "themes" support should only apply to the windowing system: bring it down to the application level!

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István — Thu, 17 Feb 2005 21:28:00 GMT

How about icons for certificates and email signing/encryption (various certificate icons plus padlock/cert with envelope - ala Outlook)? Will they be included?

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Ross — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 13:11:02 GMT

Tiny, tiny icons - as much use as a chocolate teapot!

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re: New/updated Icon Sets with Visual Studio 2005

Alexander — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:48:46 GMT

Hi. We use custom bitmaps for AddIn Toolbar in VS2005 - 2008. Do you know how make these bitmaps to have AntiAlias effect. Thank you, Alexander. My E-mail

ayanushpolsk@bloomberg.net

re: New/updated Icon Sets with Visual Studio 2005

Suzanne Hansen — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:56:58 GMT

Hi Alexander,

I’m from the Visual Studio Platform team. There’s no way to get Visual Studio to do the anti-aliasing, but the bitmap provided can be a high-color image with anti-aliasing built in. High color images can be used for both Visual Studio 2005 and 2008.