icon-element.md

title	Icon Element
description	Learn about the Icon element, which represents icons used in Visual Studio IDE extensions, which includes attributes for the bitmap used and the slot in the bitmap strip.
ms.date	11/04/2016
ms.topic	reference
helpviewer_keywords	VSCT XML schema elements, Icon Icon element (VSCT XML schema)
author	tinaschrepfer
ms.author	tinali
ms.subservice	extensibility-integration

Icon element

The guid attribute of the Icon tag is the guid of a defined bitmap. The id attribute selects the slot in the bitmap strip. This element is optional. If this element is not included the value of guidOfficeIcon:msotcidNoIcon will be implied.

Syntax

<Icon guid="guidImages" id="bmpPic1" />

Attributes and elements

The following sections describe attributes, child elements, and parent elements.

Attributes

Attribute	Description
guid	Required. The guid of a defined bitmap.
id	Required. Selects the slot in the bitmap strip.

Child elements

Element	Description
None.	None.

Parent elements

Element	Description
Buttons element

See also

• Visual Studio command table (.vsct) files