894 questions
You can go to the "Package.appxmanifest", switch to visual properties and generate those icon pngs and then change their build option to content.Then you will see the icon on taskbar.This worked for me
Can't set icon in Taskbar
![](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(192, 0%, 28%)' cx='32' cy='32' r='32' /%3E%3Ctext x='50%25' y='55%25' dominant-baseline='middle' text-anchor='middle' fill='%23FFF' %3EBB%3C/text%3E%3C/svg%3E)
Bert Boonstra
26
Reputation points
Hi,
I'm developing my first WinUI 3 app using the WindowsAppSDK. My struggle is with setting the icon for the app and in the Windows Taskbar.
Setting the icon for the main window works well with the 'SetIcon' method of the AppWindow instance. But I can't get it onto the Taskbar, not from the manifest or from code.
I have also tried the AppWindow sample on GitHub (https://github.com/nickrandolph/AppWindowSample), but with same result.
Any ideas what could be the cause of the issue here? Are there special requirements for the icon? (my expertise is mostly in Windows Forms so it is very well possible that I have missed something here). My Windows version is 11.
Windows development | Windows App SDK
2 answers
Sort by: Most helpful
-
-
Castorix31 90,686 Reputation points2022-06-24T10:07:26.783+00:00 It is in Properties, Win32 Resources (this had been asked : App Icon - Windows App SDK)
-
Bert Boonstra 26 Reputation points
2022-06-24T12:44:19.427+00:00 Yes, tried that as well but no luck
-
Castorix31 90,686 Reputation points
2022-06-24T13:02:28.763+00:00 It works fine on Windows 10 21H1, Unpackaged App test
In fact, it just adds this line in .csproj :<ApplicationIcon>Assets\butterfly.ico</ApplicationIcon>and the icon is normally in the Taskbar :
-
Bert Boonstra 26 Reputation points
2022-06-24T15:20:16.417+00:00 I do have that line '<ApplicationIcon>Assets\uninstallerIcon.ico</ApplicationIcon>' as well, but still the default icon int he taskbar
-
Castorix31 90,686 Reputation points
2022-06-24T15:51:57.133+00:00 I cannot reproduce this problem
I have only Windows 10, tested with Unpackaged app in C#, with Windows App SDK 1.1.0 (not the last one, 1.1.1), with a random 128*128 .ico
If you think it is a bug, you could report it at issues (there are MS developers who work on Windows App SDK/WinUI)
Sign in to comment -