VB.NET表单图标错误

Question

Everytime I set the form icon, I get the following error :

Value of type 'System.Drawing.Icon' cannot be converted to 'String'

I have tried both external icon file and resources method, but none worked.

Dim X as new System.Drawing.Icon("icon.ico")
Me.Icon = X

and

Me.Icon = My.Resources.Icon

Same thing if I create a new project.

Any help is appreciated, and thanks in advance!

Answer 1

If you are developing a WinForms application, your first attempt should work:

Me.Icon = New System.Drawing.Icon("path/to/.ico/file")

If you are writing your UI with WPF, then the .Icon property expects an ImageSource object:

Dim iconUri As New Uri("pack://application:,,,/WPFIcon2.ico", UriKind.RelativeOrAbsolute)
Me.Icon = BitmapFrame.Create(iconUri)

The second example is directly taken from the MSDN .