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I've assigned an icon to a C# WinForms app using the Project Properties tab. This icon is supplied along with the program manifest at build time. Is there a way to get an System.Drawing.Icon object of this icon at runtime, without having to embed it in resources again?
I've done my research; There's a way to extract an icon out of an EXE, but nothing I can find to extract the icon off the running C# application from within the application.
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Right-click the EXE file for the software you want to extract an icon from and select Properties. Click the Icons tab shown directly below. Select an icon to extract there.
On the menu bar, choose Project > Properties. When the Project Designer appears, choose the Application tab. (Visual Basic)—In the Icon list, choose an icon (. ico) file.
Select the current icon and click Modify selected icon.... Another file browser window will expand. Select your ICO file and click Open. In the File Explorer window, go to the location of your icon file, then click the icon file to select it. You'll now see the replacement icon.
With a project selected in Solution Explorer, on the Project menu, click Properties. Select the Application pane. Select Browse from the Icon drop-down list and browse to the location of the icon file that you want.
Did you see the second answer in the link? (How can I get the icon from the executable file only having an instance of it's Process in C#)
//Gets the icon associated with the currently executing assembly
//(or pass a different file path and name for a different executable)
Icon appIcon = Icon.ExtractAssociatedIcon(Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location);
That seems like it's getting the icon for the executing assembly.
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