Visual Studio Icon Library

I just love accidentally finding valuable information. While looking for something totally different, I found this article by Sara Ford.

Starting in Visual Studio 2005, you’ll find the Visual Studio Image Library, a zip file that contains over a 1000 images to create applications that have a consistent UI look and feel to Windows, Office, and Visual Studio.

During the Visual Studio setup, the VS2008ImageLibrary.zip file is installed at \Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\VS2008ImageLibrary\

Judging from the comments on the article, I'm not sure many people knew this was there.

One of the cooler things included in the library are some of those animated icons you see on long operations such as moving, copying, and uploading files.   A few months ago, I probably spent a couple of hours browsing around the web for examples of those.

Thanks Sara.