Visual Express C# 2008 icon issues

nothing to do with the programming lanuage.  it's a little icon issue that's awful frustrating because its presence is just mind boggling.

I can set the icons of this application without issue.  The executable icon looks fine, as do the form icons, until I open up more than two windows.  see what happens to the taskbar icon.



The non-transparent icon was gone long ago, but still persists in the project.  i have no idea how to get rid of it or how this is even happening.  I tried deleting the obj folder incase that got rid of any temporary files but it's still there.  rebuilding the project a ton of times and constantly deleting / reinserting icons did nothing.  the first icon i assigned is stuck to the application for whatever reason.

strangely, the debug and release builds are different in the icon included.  debug build has the default icon in its place.  what?

I remember having this exact issue when I did in I think it was devcpp which was resolved by rebuilding the project/solution/whatever but rebuilding the solution here isn't helping.  anyone have an idea of what's causing this because it genuinely makes no sense to me.  somewhere in the project the old icon is present, but I don't know where it is or how to get rid of it.

You've deleted the obj folder, but have you deleted the bin (Debug/Release) folder?  That sort of thing happens to me all the time.  VS doesn't always rebuild projects and dependencies correctly when only one resource has changed, so if it shows up properly in the IDE but doesn't show when you run the app, clearing the build folders is generally the quickest fix.  As you surmised.  At one point I even had a pre-build event to clear them out.

Outside of that, you could try manually recreating the resource files, assuming that your icon is located in those and not in a dedicated icon file.

Also, exactly how did you "rebuild the project?" I'm not sure that I'm interpreting that correctly.

Actually, in VB.NET at least, there is an option for every resource to be rebuilt on compile or not. Try to set that for your icon and see if it works.
You have to view all files in the tree list and then select the resource and it should be in the properties dialog below the project explorer. If VB.Net is anything to go by.

cYa,

Tauwasser

ok, got it sorted.  thanks alot.