ClickOnce start menu icon

Question

How do I set the icon for my start menu shortcut, when I deploy and install my application with ClickOnce?

Platform: Visual Studio 2010 Professional Beta 1

Answer 1

The question that led me to this thread was the following: How do I set the icon for my start menu shortcut when I deploy and install my application with ClickOnce? This is Rene's question as well.

I did try the solution where one goes to the Application tab and in the middle of the page use the option for "icon and manifest". I made sure that the icon was in the various resource files. The icon appeared on my window form, but this failed to solve the problem: The start icon remained the default icon and did not change to my application's icon.

It failed because there was another issue involved. The icon.ico file I had built for the form was 250x250 and 96px resolution. I rebuilt the application icon, which was located in the root folder, to 16x16 and 72px resolution. After doing this the Start Menu icon in Windows changed top my application's icon.