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<\/p>\nThis is a small addition that makes things look better.<\/p>\n
Find a nice (and free to use) icon file or create your own if you know how to do it.<\/p>\n
Go back to Visual Studio. In the solution explorer, right-click on your project (not the solution!)
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And select “Properties”.<\/p>\n
In the new window, select the “Resources” section and click on the text to create a resource file.
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Now that the resource file is ready, open the second menu and select “Add Existing File\u2026”
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Browse your disk and add your ICO file. Its time to add it to our XML extension file.<\/p>\n Add the following lines at the beginning of the ActionDescription section.<\/p>\n Like this:<\/p>\n Try again! Adding a nice icon This is a small addition that makes things look better. Find a nice (and free to use) icon file or create your own if you know how to do it. Go back to Visual Studio. In the solution explorer, right-click on your project (not the solution!) And select “Properties”. In the … Continue reading “Part 3 – Adding an icon”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brunocm.azurewebsites.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brunocm.azurewebsites.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brunocm.azurewebsites.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brunocm.azurewebsites.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brunocm.azurewebsites.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brunocm.azurewebsites.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81,"href":"https:\/\/brunocm.azurewebsites.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17\/revisions\/81"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brunocm.azurewebsites.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nNote the icon name somewhere!<\/em><\/p>\n<ImagesDescription>\n <ResourceAssembly>\n <Assembly>C:\\Program Files (x86)\\myCompany\\myextension\\MyFirstExtension.dll<\/Assembly>\n <Type>MyFirstExtension.Properties.Resources.resources<\/Type>\n <\/ResourceAssembly>\n <ImageResourceName>collinfo<\/ImageResourceName>\n<\/ImagesDescription><\/pre>\n
<ActionDescription Class=\"AssemblyType\" DisplayName=\"show collections\" MnemonicDisplayName=\"show collections\" Description=\"Shows the list of collection IDs this device is member of\">\n <ImagesDescription>\n <ResourceAssembly>\n <Assembly>C:\\Program Files (x86)\\myCompany\\myextension\\MyFirstExtension.dll<\/Assembly>\n <Type>MyFirstExtension.Properties.Resources.resources<\/Type>\n <\/ResourceAssembly>\n <ImageResourceName>collinfo<\/ImageResourceName>\n <\/ImagesDescription>\n <ShowOn>\n <string>ContextMenu<\/string>\n <string>DefaultHomeTab<\/string>\n <\/ShowOn>\n <ActionAssembly>\n <Assembly>C:\\Users\\m328996\\Documents\\Visual Studio 2015\\Projects\\MyFirstExtension\\MyFirstExtension\\bin\\x86\\Release\\MyFirstExtension.dll<\/Assembly>\n <Type>MyFirstExtension.DeviceTools<\/Type>\n <Method>deviceCollections<\/Method>\n <\/ActionAssembly>\n<\/ActionDescription><\/pre>\n
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