How to set application icon on Windows?

[vadi2]

Using .NET 5 and <OutputType>WinExe</OutputType>, how can one set the application icon of the generated .exe?

[vitek-karas]

Add <ApplicationIcon>App.ico</ApplicationIcon> to your project file.

[mairaw]

I believe this has been answered, so closing.

[vadi2]

While this helped with the explorer view, the icon used by the window manager and the task bar is not correct -

Is there a trick to this?

[vitek-karas]

This icon comes from the window itself. It depends which UI stack you're using to create the window. For example for WinForms it can be done like this: https://stackoverflow.com/a/18736559/327203