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Axialis IconWorkshop™ Lite for VS 2008

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No, I haven't totally lost my mind and gone completely marketing mad. This is a free add-in to Visual Studio 2008. Microsoft worked with Axialis to create this tool because there is a need for new, larger icons, now that we have higher resolution monitors. IconWorkshop supports creating 256X256 icons supported on Vista.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You can download the free add-in from the Axialis site:

https://www.axialis.com/download/iwlite.html

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  • Anonymous
    August 08, 2008
    You have gone completely marketing mad! There is no file there - 404...

  • Anonymous
    August 08, 2008
    Yup confirmed 404. madness I say.

  • Anonymous
    August 08, 2008
    Sorry about that. Not enough sleep last night. This about the third thing like this I have done today. The link is fixed now.

  • Anonymous
    August 08, 2008
    Don't see any Lite version at the new URL.

  • Anonymous
    August 08, 2008
    Maybe it's me but I don't see a Lite version on the site just a pay version. I'm I just blind?

  • Anonymous
    August 08, 2008
    there is no free version Axialis IconWorkshop™ Download 30-Day Tryout Version

  • Anonymous
    August 08, 2008
    The original link existed, but Axialis removed it. The current link only features the paid product. I think you should talk to Axialis, since the product no longer appears on their site.

  • Anonymous
    August 08, 2008
    In addition: "...Additionally it has been developped in C++ using Microsoft® MFC which is the industry standard in software engineering..." And I thought that was a statement which was true 1998, not 2008.

  • Anonymous
    August 09, 2008
    VS2008 supports Vista icons on its own... what's this fuss all about? If you want something qualitatively different, get RealWorld Icon Editor...

  • Anonymous
    August 09, 2008
    I guess they pulled the plug... Their loss.  Will Check out your suggestion, RealWorld Icon Editor!

  • Anonymous
    August 11, 2008
    Seems to be back online now: http://dl.filekicker.com/send/file/214571-5ZJ4/IconWorkshop-Lite-6.3.1.0-Eng.exe

  • Anonymous
    August 11, 2008
    The correct URL seems to be: http://www.axialis.com/download/iwlite.html.

  • Anonymous
    August 12, 2008
    Well, I downloaded this with great hopes for proper integration with Visual Studio and what did I get? A single button on a custom toolbar that simply launches the current document in a new instance of IconWorkshop. Hardly what I'd call integrated. Which is a pity, as the built-in icon/bitmap editor for Visual Studio has been sadly lacking for years now. Off to check out RealWorld Icon Editor now... Mal.

  • Anonymous
    August 12, 2008
    Gosh. This is one blog post I wish I had never written! I apologize for the confusion.

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  • Anonymous
    August 13, 2008
    Your installer does not seem to detect Visual Studio 2008 Professional SP1, and consequently fails to install.

  • Anonymous
    August 14, 2008
    The comment has been removed

  • Anonymous
    August 18, 2008
    I hate to say, but my personal feeling is that the ability to create the kind of icons needed in Vista should be included with Visual Studio and not provided by some third party. I can understand creating the actual icons being a true art, but to assemble the icon... That really should be part of VS. I will download this, and I'm glad to see it's free, but why not include it with VS? Ohwell.

  • Anonymous
    August 18, 2008
    I think the point that Sean makes is valid, but in each release of VS I have never seen MS have all the tools built in, for all aspects of Windows application development. In some cases the tools were the most fundamental -  just to enable the ability to create a .RC file (for example) - and relying more so on the 3rd party developers, this especially was the case with the Custom Controls.

  • Anonymous
    September 14, 2008
    Hello, A new version 6.3.1.1 is available online. It installs fine on activated trial versions of Visual Studio 2008. Regards, Marc EMILE - Axialis Team

  • Anonymous
    September 30, 2008
    I'd be happy if they fixed cut/copy/paste in the VS 2008 icon editor.  But it's only been broke since 4.0 or so...maybe 2010.

  • Anonymous
    October 06, 2008
    I tried to install version 6.3.1.1 and it definitely does not install or recognizes VS 2008 Profesional if you use an activated trial version with SP1 installed. If you are going to release a product and then tell everyone it works and is fixed... It better well work.

  • Anonymous
    November 18, 2008
    I tried version 6.3.1.1 too and it did NOT recognize VS 2008 Professional SP1 on my Vista machine.

  • Anonymous
    December 19, 2008
    I agree with PW and Arash - my activated trial version of VS 2008 SP1 is not recognised. If this is supposed to be the official Icon editor for VS, you'd have hoped someone would have tested it...