title: Specify Icon for Windows Application using Visual Studio 2008 - Beginner's Question
body: <p>I am building a Windows Application using Visual Studio 2008. For the forms (2 of them), I have specified icons. </p>
  
  <p>Now, I build the Setup by adding Setup and Deployment Project to my solution. In properties of the Setup and Deployment Project, I specify the Icon. </p>
  
  <p>Then I do the following</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>I create a Shortcut to the Primary Output of my Application (the executable). Link <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/syyw4edd%28v=VS.90%29.aspx" rel="nofollow">here</a>.</li>
  <li>I cut/paste it to the User's Desktop under the File System on Target's Machine. Link <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/sat42980%28v=VS.90%29.aspx" rel="nofollow">here</a>. </li>
  <li>To the properties, I add the Icon</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>Now, in the Add/Remove Programs, I have the icon. 
  In the Desktop, I have the icon. But the actual executable file still comes with the standard exe icon. </p>
  
  <p>How can I have my icon for the actual executable also?</p>