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I created a powershell gui and I would like to insert an icon to my windows.form.

I did it this way and I generated an exe file with ps2exe.

Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Windows.Forms

[System.Windows.Forms.Application]::EnableVisualStyles()



#region begin GUI{ 



$Form                            = New-Object system.Windows.Forms.Form

$Form.ClientSize                 = '400,230'

$Form.text                       = "Test"

$Form.TopMost                    = $false

$Icon                            = New-Object system.drawing.icon (".icontest.ico")

$Form.Icon                       = $Icon

Everything works well if I bring along with my exe the dir icon with the icon test.ico but now I would incorporate the icon in my code without having to bring the icon directory with my exe.

It's possible to do it? How?

Thank you

You can embed graphic information in your code by using a base64 encoded image like below:

Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Windows.Forms

[System.Windows.Forms.Application]::EnableVisualStyles()



$Form            = New-Object system.Windows.Forms.Form

$Form.ClientSize = '400,230'

$Form.text       = "Test"

$Form.TopMost    = $false



# This base64 string holds the bytes that make up the orange 'G' icon (just an example for a 32x32 pixel image)

$iconBase64      = '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'

$iconBytes       = [Convert]::FromBase64String($iconBase64)

$stream          = New-Object IO.MemoryStream($iconBytes, 0, $iconBytes.Length)

$stream.Write($iconBytes, 0, $iconBytes.Length);

$iconImage       = [System.Drawing.Image]::FromStream($stream, $true)

$Form.Icon       = [System.Drawing.Icon]::FromHandle((New-Object System.Drawing.Bitmap -Argument $stream).GetHIcon())



[void]$Form.ShowDialog()



# when done, dispose of the form

$Form.Dispose()

To convert your own image to a base64 string, there are lots of online converters like this one.

To go the other way around (convert base64 image data back to a graphic image) they also have a page for that here

Of course you can also do the conversion to Base64 using Powershell:

[Convert]::ToBase64String((Get-Content ".icontest.ico" -Encoding Byte))