Winforms icon frustration...

In my C# programs, I like to assign all sorts of colorful icons to things like buttons and linklabels (through the standard IDE at design time). However, if I zip up my project folder and install it on another machine, it can''t find the icons! I used to use VB 6 a lot, and I don''t remember ever having this problem, so it must have been compiling all the image resources into a resource file in the background. C# seems to instead maintain references to the images instead of packaging them with the exe. This is incredibly frustrating! Why does it work this way? I mean, what are the odds that all the people you distribute to are going to have the same icon files in the same place on their machine? How can I fix this problem? If I put all the image files in the project folder, are the tools smart enough to find them there? Or do I have to do some kind of tedious process that involves adding the image files to the manifest and then use some hideous function to get them back out again? Really all I want to do is a design a form in the IDE and have it display like that on all machines. You know, like VB has done since the dawn of time. Is that too much to ask? ---------------------------------------- Let be be finale of seem, seems to me. ---------------------------------------- Shedletsky''s Code Library: Open source projects and demos