Question

I have this problem:
in my test.dll I have a usercontrol with a button with an icon png, my test.exe contains the usercontrol in test.dll and everything works fine.
after I use a ilmerge to create testMerged.exe like this:

ilmerge /wildcards /t:winexe /out:$(TargetDir)testMerged.exe
$(TargetPath) $(TargetDir)test.dll

and the program works fine but the button doesn’t have the icon…. how can I solve this?

Answer 1

Here is how I got it to work:

Class Library

• Create new class library
• Create user control
• Add button to user control
• In project properties, add image resource (existing png file)
• Set the Build Action on the png file to Embedded Resource

• Set the button image using

  this.button1.Image = global::ClassLibrary1.Properties.Resources.MyImage;

Win forms

• Create new winform project
• Add reference to the class library project
• Rebuild (to get the user control in the toolbox)
• Add user control to the form

• Set the post Build action to

  “c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\ILMerge\ILMerge.exe” /t:winexe /targetPlatform:v2 /out:$(TargetDir)testMerged.exe $(TargetPath) $(TargetDir)ClassLibrary1.dll

• Rebuild

• Run the testMerged.exe

My result:

[Not enough rep to post an image 🙁 ]