[RESOLVED] Set icon at build time

[Dr.GEORGE]

Hello.
I have a small MFC dialog based application. Also I have a some resources (some icons). I want my application to have different icons for different builds (release and debug). For example I have two icons, debug.ico and release.ico. If I build my application in release configuration, I want to have release.ico as my application icon ( by "application icon" I mean icon visible from explorer.exe). If I build with debug config, to have debug.ico as application icon. I'm using Visual Studio.

Is it possible to do this?
How can I affect build process?

Thank you...

[alanjhd08]

Hi,

Windows will use the lowest numbered icon resource, so in your .rc file try this:

#ifdef _DEBUG
0  ICON   "res\\debug.ico"
#else
0 ICON "res\\release.ico"
#endif

Alan