Question

I have an application with a tool bar and an Image Collection. The problem is that I do not have the original images and I need to create another tool bar with some of the same buttons. Is there a way to save the Images Collection from the tool bar to a file?

I tried extracting the images from a resource file but I do not know which one has the images stored in.

Answer 1

Although I did not find an answer for my question, I managed to get the images by reading the tool bar image list and saving each one to a file according to the given image key.

for (int x = 0; x < this.imageListToolbar3small.Images.Count; ++x)
        {
            Image temp = this.imageListToolbar.Images[x];
            temp.Save(this.imageListToolbar.Images.Keys[x] + ".png");
        }

This came from an answer to this question: How to Export Images from an Image List in VS2005?

I just added the code after the InitializeComponent call and saved all images in debug mode. I did not needed to run the full application.

If anyone does have a better idea or a small application to retrieve images from a tool bar using only the resource file, that would be appreciated. I will not mark as an answer since it is more a workaround.