You just have finished your application, the only thing you need is an icon. You don't have icons on your machine and you don't have the graphical skills to create one. But... you have an image on your PC or you found one on Google (watch out for copyrights!) that could be used, too bad it's not in .ico format. But since you're a .NET-coder, you can create an application to convert an image to an icon in less then one minute! Have a look at this demo application. Create a new Windows Application Set the value of the AllowDrop property of the form to True Add this code to the DragEnter event of the form Private Sub Form1_DragEnter(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.DragEventArgs) Handles MyBase.DragEnter If e.Data.GetDataPresent(DataFormats.FileDrop) Then e.Effect = DragDropEffects.Copy Else e.Effect = DragDropEffects.None End If End Sub

Add code to the DragDrop event of the form Private Sub Form1_DragDrop(ByVal sender As Object,...

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Some months ago I published an article explaining how to copy a file with a progressbar in VB.NET. I would like to thank you all for the great feedback on that article! Some days ago I received a mail with the question how to copy a whole directorystructure while showing the progress. So here's a possible solution. Please have a look at the original article first (http://www.khswsoft.be/Blog/tabid/81/EntryID/12/Default.aspx). The necessary API functions: Private Delegate Function CopyProgressRoutine(ByVal totalFileSize As Int64, ByVal totalBytesTransferred As Int64, ByVal streamSize As Int64, ByVal streamBytesTransferred As Int64, ByVal dwStreamNumber As Int32, ByVal dwCallbackReason As Int32, ByVal hSourceFile As Int32, ByVal hDestinationFile As Int32, ByVal lpData As Int32) As Int32 Private Declare Auto Function CopyFileEx Lib "kernel32.dll" (ByVal lpExistingFileName As String, ByVal lpNewFileName As String, ByVal lpProgressRoutine As CopyProgressRoutine, ByVal lpData As Int32, ByVal lpBool As Int32, ByVal dwCopyFlags As Int32) As Int32...

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