title: Why does toolbar icons in VB6 looks worst in quality when running as an EXE?
body: <p>I have a toolbar in a VB6 editor program which has a 24*24 icons in 24bits color.
  I put in the photos in a res. resource file and load them into the program via loadImage.</p>
  
  <p>the problem is i can see the icon quality looks good running in debug mode but when i compile the program into an exe, there's a severe degradation going on.</p>
  
  <p>I heard from my senior that there's something inside the visual studio which will automatically decrease the quality of the image inside.</p>
  
  <p>Is this true? and if not, what is happening here?
  And more importantly, how do i work around this?</p>
  
  <p>thanks!!</p>