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[Mariscal]

I was just sent a png file from marketing, who would like to use it as an icon file to appear in Add/Remove programs.

When I link to it within the IDE, however (General Information > Add or Remove Programs > Display Icon), and then attempt to rebuild, it fails with "error -3204: Cannot extract icon with index 0 from file".

I am using Installshield 2011. I haven't found definitively whether png is even supported here.

Also, is there a standard size which the file must be to be used in ARP?

Thanks very much.

[Stefan Krueger]

I'm not 100% sure but I don't think ARP supports PNG files. Did you serach MSDN documentation for supported formats?
My suggestion would be to convert it to .ico format. I believe that the standard ico sizes are described somewhere in MSDN.

[Mariscal]

Thanks, Stefan. I did indeed convert to an ico format for ARP, and requested marketing send me a bmp file for the dialog banners. This solution works well.