Use WIC to decode the Windows Vista icon

Recently I wrote a control and found that the VC API function: LoadImage contains 128x128,256x256 icons, and some of them cannot be loaded in this format.

The reason is that the format is PNG compressed image format.

 

-- WIC history

Microsoft Windows Imaging component (WIC) is an extensible framework used to encode, decode, and manipulate images. WIC was originally created for Windows Vista And Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
But now, not only Windows Vista and Microsoft. NET Framework 3.0 and later, but also Windows XP and Windows Server A download item of 2003 for local applications Program.

 

 

To read the ICO in this format, there are twoArticleIt is worth reading:

Part 1: http://msdn.microsoft.com/zh-cn/magazine/cc500647.aspx

Part 2 http://msdn.microsoft.com/zh-cn/magazine/cc546571.aspx