Isolated Shell About Box Logo

Question

Hi,

We are building VS2012 Isolated Shell based product. As part of the product branding we are customizing About Box. We are using VS built-in about box through InstalledProductRegistration attribute usage.

I cannot find the way to set product logo in About Box (Logo in upper left coner of About Box, not the one shown in installed packages list). About box shown without any top logo/banner at all.

Any help will be appreciated

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Leon Langleyben

Answer 1

As I know, we can customize the appearance of the Help/About box in the SolutionName.AboutBoxPackage project.

I found a blog about How to change solution icon in the Visual Studio Isolated Shell which could be helpful to you.

Here is the link:http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vsx/archive/2012/12/18/how-to-change-solution-icon-in-the-visual-studio-isolated-shell.aspx

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Answer 2

Hi Disley,

The article you pointed at describes howto change solution icon.

My original question was related to About Box banner. Two icons are completetely unrelated.

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Leon Langleyben

Answer 3

Hi Leon,

Thank you for your question.

I am trying to involve someone familiar with this topic to further look at this issue. There might be some time delay. Appreciate your patience.
 
Thank you for your understanding and support.

Best regards,

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Answer 4

Hi Leon,

I spent some time digging through the source, and I can confirm there's no way to do this. This is set through a branding theme that isn't exposed externally. The only recommendation I can recommend in this instance is to implement your own About Box. When you create a new isolated shell app, we also create an aboutbox package that implements that Help.About command, and that about box is entirely customizable.

Probably not the answer you were looking for. But I also got confirmation from the IDE team that this isn't possble. Ideally, there ought to be a property in the .pkgdef so we could set this. I'll get a feature request into the IDE teams bug database, to see if we can get that added for the next release.

Sincerely,

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Ed Dore