Silverlight OOB icons not appearing on the Windows 8 desktops

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I have a Silverlight 5 Project compiled in the VS2012. I've set all png icons for the out-of-browser properly. If I test the Installation in the e.g. Windows XP I see all these icons everywhere (on the desktop, in the start menu, taskbar, etc.) Windows 8 shows the icon also everywhere except on the metro and classic desktop.

Is this a bug in the Silverlight, or is any workaround for the Windows 8 available?

score 4 · Answer 1 · edited Oct 15 '12 at 06:40

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I can confirm this problem. I installed an OOB application to Windows 7 and had no problems. In Windows 8 I can see the correct icon in install dialog and on the upper left corner of OOB window but in start menu and on desktop the icon is white paper.

I checked the path of the icon:

%USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\Microsoft\Silverlight\OutOfBrowser\2301909557.app.url.com\2301909557.app.url.com.ico

I tried to use another .ICO file and had no problems. Then I changed it back to original. I could see the correct icon in preview window but when I accepted the changes the icon changed to white paper again.

Maybe there is something wrong with the .ICO file?

edited Oct 15 '12 at 06:40

Artur Udod

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answered Oct 15 '12 at 06:31

Mika Hiltunen

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if you open up the .ico in an icon editor (say http://icofx.ro/ trial) does it contain 64x64 version? can you compare with other .ico files on Win8? – George Birbilis Jul 06 '14 at 08:39
at some forum an issue with PNG interlace setting not being supported on Win7 was mentioned, may be related too (not sure if the IDE or the deployment was on Win7) – George Birbilis Jul 06 '14 at 08:40
No, it was compiled and deployed on the Windows 8. – Alexander Zwitbaum Jul 07 '14 at 07:34

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 15 '12 at 06:37

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I had a similar problem on Windows 7 a couple months ago. I fixed it by convert the png image to ico file.

answered Oct 15 '12 at 06:37

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do you mean you passed .ico files to Visual Studio's dialog that asks for the various sizes of the icon graphics? – George Birbilis Jul 07 '14 at 16:36

MiddleTommy · Answer 3 · 2012-11-08T16:17:10.673

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I had this problem then fixed it by adding a 64x64 icon to the ico file (I thought it worked but now I have a blank page again)

edited Nov 08 '12 at 16:17

answered Nov 08 '12 at 15:47

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probably you built/deployed your project again and it removed the 64x64 version from inside the icon file again? If that is the case then one can add a post-build action probably to fix the .ico inside the .xap file. Only hope post-build actions are exectuted before publishing (which does call build automatically), but I guess they should – George Birbilis Jul 06 '14 at 08:33

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Jul 06 '14 at 08:36

at http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/silverlight/en-US/759bd857-ce84-45a2-8b38-4cd83744ea2b/oob-icon-on-windows-8 they say you can set OOB app to use elevated rights to fix the issue, but find it strange, plus using rights elevation just for that isn't a solution (see more there on why it's not acceptable)

Silverlight OOB icons not appearing on the Windows 8 desktops

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