Giving an Application Its Final Touches

Once you’ve finished coding your application’s functionality, you’ll want to give your application an icon and provide a shortcut to the application in the Start menu of the Windows CE or Pocket PC device.

Associating an Icon with Your Application

To associate an icon with your application, open the project Property Pages dialog box, select the General section, and enter the path to the icon in the Application Icon property. Figure 4-10 shows the project Property Pages dialog box.

Project Property Pages dialog box.

Figure 4-10. Project Property Pages dialog box.

Adding a Shortcut to the Start Menu

Adding a shortcut to the Start menu will allow the ...

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