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I'm working on a quick setup program in Visual Studio and wanted to change the banner bitmap. Anyone know off-hand what the ideal (or the required) dimensions are for the new banner image? Thanks.

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Found it on MSDN docs for BannerBitmap Property:

For best results, you should use a bitmap with dimensions of 500 pixels wide by 70 pixels high.

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    Thanks for this answer/question! I had to create a banner image using these dimensions and my manually obtained dimensions were off in width by 5 px. Thanks again! Shane – Grizzly Peak Software May 20 '10 at 15:57
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    From [John](http://stackoverflow.com/users/1100957/john) - also it needs to be a JPG or a BMP and RGB – KyleMit Aug 27 '15 at 19:21
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    @KyleMit I have successfully used a PNG file too, with adequate transparency. You just need to select All files in the file browser rather than Image files. – leoinlios Feb 01 '19 at 23:38
  • While the documentation states that the dimensions should be 500x70, I'm finding that 500x69 instead actually displays the image properly without stretching. – kuenzign Jun 14 '23 at 18:06