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I installed VS2015 (14.0.24720) update 1.

If I try to edit an ico file in VS2015 it always opens paint. How can find the old included ico Editor from Visual Studion?

EDIT: help/info list

Microsoft Visual Studio Enterprise 2015
Version 14.0.24720.00 Update 1
Microsoft .NET Framework
Version 4.6.01055

Installierte Version: Enterprise

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Markus Safar
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    Alive and well on my machine. What might be wrong with yours is forever hard to guess from such a short question, you need a site where psychics give free advice. Spin the repair/reinstall wheel of fortune. – Hans Passant Feb 12 '16 at 13:46
  • its not just my machine:( we got a team of 4 here and the 2 with the update 1 all missing the icon editor now. – blindmeis Feb 12 '16 at 14:11
  • Err, try opening the ICO file *in Visual Studio*, rather than from Explorer. Alternatively, right-click from Explorer and "Open With" Visual Studio. Sounds to me like you've just got your file associations messed up. – Cody Gray - on strike Feb 12 '16 at 17:04
  • if i do this: VS2015 opened and then the ico open in paint. it seems that the Image Editor form vs2015 is broken or something – blindmeis Feb 15 '16 at 06:16
  • Have you tried running an experimental instance of VS, and check if the same happens there as well? It seems that the default external tool is being automatically picked up somehow. Maybe some extension added this feature. – Tamas Feb 18 '16 at 15:52
  • Very unlikely the case... Anyway, how do you notice that it is gone? I mean, if the option for Image Editor is gone? Or it is there but you can't use it for ICO editing? – Ian Feb 21 '16 at 02:22
  • If you find a fix for this please post the answer. I'm in the same boat :( – Kim Mar 09 '16 at 05:51

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I ended up reinstalling VS 2015 to get the image editor back, but it's possible I didn't have to: Looking at it now that it is working properly, by right-clicking the icon in the project explorer and selecting "Open With," I can see that the association in Visual Studio is with a tool called "Resource Editor." I honestly don't know if that option was available before the reinstall - I was looking for things that began with words like "Image," not "Resource" anything. Perhaps before reinstalling, you can right-click the icon in Visual Studio, select "Open With" and see if "Resource Editor" is an option.

Assuming that Resource Editor is not available or does not work, I would try the reinstall. When I did it, I had to completely uninstall and reinstall, just trying a Repair install did not fix the problem.

One thing I did slightly differently on the reinstall - the first time I installed it was from an ISO image that I think only had update 1 on it, the second time I installed I downloaded a fresh copy of the .ISO that had update 2 on it. Maybe that made a difference.

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    I suspect this is a lurking, intermittent bug in the Visual Studio setup because I am getting exactly the same issue today with VS2017 RC. Double-click the .ico in Solution Explorer and it fires up Paint. Look in the Open With list, Paint is there but Resource Editor is not. In my case, if I then open the solution in VS2015, Resource Editor does now feature and does get launched by default. I suspect if I reinstalled VS2017 RC it might start to appear there too. – Reg Edit Feb 04 '17 at 22:53
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    It's not the setup that is buggy: See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35752106/visual-studio-2015-icon-editor Modifying my installation with the "other languages" (c++,F#,...) pack was successful for me – Jérôme Jun 20 '17 at 15:05
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It seems that you want to open the icons directly from your windows explorer. In that way the application which is linked to the file type (.ico extension) will be launched - which is paint in your case.

Either change that link to point to Visual Studio or use the following way described in the documentation:

According to the documentation the editor still exists and is rather easy to find/use.

  1. From the File menu, click Open.

  2. In the Files of Type box, click All Files.

  3. Locate and open the image you want to edit.

However according to the documentation here,...

Using the Image Editor, you can view 32-bit images, but you cannot edit them.

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    if i do the 1-2-3 steps then also paint is opened on my machine with update 1, not on the machines without update 1. – blindmeis Feb 23 '16 at 14:18
  • That's completly weird because I have the same version installed as you (including Update 1) and it works perfectly for me... – Markus Safar Feb 23 '16 at 20:23
  • always Paint 4 me: From VStudio 2015 14.0.25123.00 Updt 2, Win10 10.0.10240 1.double click icon,opens with Paint 2.Project,Add New Item,Icon File: Paint 3.Right click .ico file,Open With,"Add...", "...Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe" opens a new instance of VStudio,then Paint 4.On File Explorer,double click .ico,opens vstudio then Paint 5.File Explorer,right click,"Open With",VStudio Selector,opens vstudio,then Paint 6.Right click,"Open With","choose another app","always use...", "more apps","look for another app","...devenv.exe","Open",no such luck – Jelgab May 25 '16 at 16:39