This browser is no longer supported.
Upgrade to Microsoft Edge to take advantage of the latest features, security updates, and technical support.
![](data:image/svg+xml, %3Csvg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' height='64' class='font-weight-bold' style='font: 600 30.11764705882353px "SegoeUI", Arial' width='64'%3E%3Ccircle fill='hsl(147.20000000000002, 3%, 24%)' cx='32' cy='32' r='32' /%3E%3Ctext x='50%25' y='55%25' dominant-baseline='middle' text-anchor='middle' fill='%23FFF' %3EIK%3C/text%3E%3C/svg%3E)
Hi, ALL,
All application available that works with IO have an icon on the toolbar to perform "save" operation.
That icon looks like a floppy disk. (Take a look at the MSVC, MS Word, etc). This is true not for MS apps but for any other OS.
It becomes de-facto standard.
However, it looks like MS itself does not have it available in their stock icon set. Take a look here, for example: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/shellapi/ne-shellapi-shstockiconid.
Or there is another place where different set of stock icons are available?
What other people do? And how does MS does it themselves?
Thank you.
Or there is another place where different set of stock icons are available?
Have you taken a look at the Visual Studio Image Library
Old/standard Win32 apps use standard buttons images : Toolbar Standard Button Image Index Values
Recent apps like UWP use symbols/fonts : https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/uwp/api/windows.ui.xaml.controls.symbol?view=winrt-22621
(and Icons for Windows apps)
like ScreenSketch for example :
So what is the link I posted?
I presume that there is one place where the "stock icons" can be retrieved from.
Besides since the application can use HighDPI monitors many of them are use SVGs. And for using SVG, my link is a perfect source.
The links you posted are all PNGs.
So 2 points:
Thank you.
So what is the link I posted?
It is about Shell icons in the System ImageList (SHGetImageList and other APIs), not used in apps Toolbars, which are the icons that I described, in particular Segoe MDL2 Assets font used in most of UWP apps
OK, thx for explanation.
Do you know if there is a SVG images in the links you are posted? Or they contain PNG only?
Thank you.
Icons fonts, used in UWP, WinUI 3 or WPF, use glyphs, which are Scalable Vector Graphics
![](data:image/svg+xml, %3Csvg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' height='64' class='font-weight-bold' style='font: 600 30.11764705882353px "SegoeUI", Arial' width='64'%3E%3Ccircle fill='hsl(179.20000000000002, 34%, 27%)' cx='32' cy='32' r='32' /%3E%3Ctext x='50%25' y='55%25' dominant-baseline='middle' text-anchor='middle' fill='%23FFF' %3EXY%3C/text%3E%3C/svg%3E)
Hello,
Welcome to Microsoft Q&A!
The icon is in systemroot\system32\wmploc.dll. You can load these icons by LoadImage.
Thank you.
If the answer is the right solution, please click "Accept Answer" and kindly upvote it. If you have extra questions about this answer, please click "Comment".
Note: Please follow the steps in our documentation to enable e-mail notifications if you want to receive the related email notification for this thread.
That not what I'm referencing and talking about.
Please look at the link I posted in my OP. This is how MS defines their stadard stock items.
Then compare it to any of the MS apps out there, namely MSVC.
The stock icon for "Save" document is not the same as the stock icon used in the application.
I understand I can use whatever I want - problem is MS itself have multiple contradicting sources of information in regards to their stock items/icons.
Thank you.
As far as I'm concerned, it's customary but MS doesn't release such standard and so itself can have multiple sources of information. You don't need to keep it always.