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This week I’ve been prototyping a WinForms application and, as typical in most projects, the need arose for some icons to use in my ListViews and TreeViews. Here’s a few useful resources I found that really saved me a lot of time.

• Visual Studio 2008 Image Library – Did you know that Visual Studio 2008 (and 2005 as well) comes with an image library? Just unzip the file “C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\VS2008ImageLibrary\1033\VS2008ImageLibrary.zip”. It has a lot of the icons used in Visual Studio (but not all of them).
• FamFamFam Silk Icons – There’s a pretty slick set of icons (over 700 of them) available for free.
• IconsExtract - This freeware program lets you rip embedded icons out of any .dll, .exe, .ocx, or .cpl file. It works really well and will even search a whole directory for you. It’s great for getting system icons to use in your application.

Of course, there are some nice icon sets out there, but you’ll pay a pretty penny for them. Definitely not the thing for a quick internal application that only I will be using.

Hope that helps someone!

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