This is sort of a two part question that I was hoping someone could help me with:

1) As an MSDN subscriber, is one allowed to use the operating system's icons in our own application. Reason being is I wanted to use some of IE's navigation buttons in our custom browser, and possibly other icons.

2) Can someone point me to a good resource of free (no license restrictions) GUI dress components such as icons, skins etc..

TIA

Hello

1) As an MSDN subscriber, is one allowed to use the operating system's icons in our own application. Reason being is I wanted to use some of IE's navigation buttons in our custom browser, and possibly other icons.

Since this question is a licensing issue, and I am focused on technical issues, I feel our Microsoft Customer Service would be better able to address this issue. You can call 1-800-426-9400, Monday through Friday, 6:00 A.M. to 6:00 P.M. (Pacific time) to speak directly to a Microsoft licensing specialist, and you can get more detailed information from there. Worldwide customers can use the Guide to Worldwide Microsoft Licensing Sites to find contact information in their locations.

For detailed information on contacting Microsoft Customer Service, please reference the following Microsoft Knowledge Base article.

Q295539 How and When to Contact Microsoft Customer Service

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=295539

2) Can someone point me to a good resource of free (no license restrictions) GUI dress components such as icons, skins etc..

As far as I know, Visual Studio 2008 provides a package of icons. You can find it in

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\VS2008ImageLibrary\1033

if it is installed in c:\program files directory.

Hope it helps

Jialiang Ge

Hello

1) As an MSDN subscriber, is one allowed to use the operating system's icons in our own application. Reason being is I wanted to use some of IE's navigation buttons in our custom browser, and possibly other icons.

Since this question is a licensing issue, and I am focused on technical issues, I feel our Microsoft Customer Service would be better able to address this issue. You can call 1-800-426-9400, Monday through Friday, 6:00 A.M. to 6:00 P.M. (Pacific time) to speak directly to a Microsoft licensing specialist, and you can get more detailed information from there. Worldwide customers can use the Guide to Worldwide Microsoft Licensing Sites to find contact information in their locations.

For detailed information on contacting Microsoft Customer Service, please reference the following Microsoft Knowledge Base article.

Q295539 How and When to Contact Microsoft Customer Service

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=295539

2) Can someone point me to a good resource of free (no license restrictions) GUI dress components such as icons, skins etc..

As far as I know, Visual Studio 2008 provides a package of icons. You can find it in

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\VS2008ImageLibrary\1033

if it is installed in c:\program files directory.

Hope it helps

Jialiang Ge

thanks for the info Jialiang, it was very informative. I've already been playing with the visual studio image library, definitely a good find. Thanks.