Free (Lite Version) Icon Editor Addin for Visual Studio 2008 - Axialis IconWorkshop Lite

Axialis - Axialis IconWorkshop™ Lite Version 6.3.1.0

“Axialis Software, in association with Microsoft Corporation, presents Axialis IconWorkshop Lite for Visual Studio 2008:

• 100% Free for Visual Studio 2008 users;
• Make icons for Windows up to 256x256 PNG-compressed icons for Windows Vista™ and include them in your software projects;
• Use an advanced icon editor with various tools, filters and effects;
• Work efficiently using a Plug-in for Visual Studio 2008;
• Create icons from images or ready-to-use image objects;
• Use a fully integrated workspace with librarian, built-in file explorer with thumbnail preview, image viewer and more...

*IMPORTANT: Axialis IconWorkshop™ Lite installs ONLY if Visual Studio® 2008 Professional or Standard edition is present on your computer. Express, Trial or Older versions of Visual Studio are NOT compatible.

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You may have seen similar posts a few days ago about this, but the page and download links seemed to be dead then (I know because I tried, believe me I tried!  :). Today it seems to be up and working just fine. I’ve downloaded it and am installing it now.

BTW, the Visual Studio “addin” appears to be the automatic registering of the Axialis IconWorkshop Lite utility as an External Editor for ICO’s and a toolbar button that opens the ICO in the external app. No “in Studio” designer/design surface (at least as far as I can tell… Seems the ICO designer in VS is the same as it was before, but then again, it’s been a while since I edited ICO’s in VS2008…)

Still free is nice and this does make it easier to edit ICO’s…

 

Visual Studio (after Axialis IconWorkshop Lite install, note the “I” toolbar button)

Axialis IconWorkshop Lite

(via Windows Now - New Releases: SQL 2008, .NET Framework 3.5 SP1, VS2008 SP1, and more)

 

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