Are there any alternatives to Microsoft Office icons that I can use in my application?

Question

Microsoft Office icons are copyrighted by Microsoft and this prevents us from using them in non-Microsoft applications due to their licence terms.

I\'m trying to find so

Answer 1

I'm guessing you mean file icons, not the applications. As long as office is installed you can use code to load the icons at runtime e.g. GetFileIcon("doc", SHGFI_ICONSIZE_LARGE)

    const uint SHGFI_ICON = 0x100;
    const uint SHGFI_USEFILEATTRIBUTES = 0x10; // Use file extension not name
    const uint SHGFI_ICONSIZE_SMALL = 1;
    const uint SHGFI_ICONSIZE_LARGE = 0;
    const uint FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL = 0;
    const uint FILE_ATTRIBUTE_DIRECTORY = 16;

    [StructLayout(LayoutKind.Sequential)]
    struct SHFILEINFO
    {
        public IntPtr hIcon;
        public IntPtr iIcon;
        public uint dwAttributes;
        [MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.ByValTStr, SizeConst = 260)]
        public string szDisplayName;
        [MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.ByValTStr, SizeConst = 80)]
        public string szTypeName;
    }

    [DllImport("shell32.dll")]
    private static extern IntPtr SHGetFileInfo(string pszPath, uint dwFileAttributes, ref SHFILEINFO psfi, uint cbSizeFileInfo, uint uFlags);

    static System.Drawing.Icon GetFileIcon(string extension, uint size)
    {
        IntPtr hImgResult;    //the handle to the system image list
        SHFILEINFO shinfo = new SHFILEINFO();

        if (string.Compare(extension,"folder",true)==0)
        {
            hImgResult = SHGetFileInfo("", FILE_ATTRIBUTE_DIRECTORY, ref shinfo,
                                       (uint)Marshal.SizeOf(shinfo),
                                        SHGFI_ICON | size);
        }
        else
        {
            hImgResult = SHGetFileInfo(extension, FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL, ref shinfo,
                                       (uint)Marshal.SizeOf(shinfo),
                                        SHGFI_ICON | SHGFI_USEFILEATTRIBUTES | size);
        }
        return System.Drawing.Icon.FromHandle(shinfo.hIcon);
    }