App-V Icons

While programming the App-V Self Support tool I noticed that application Icons are stored in a lot of different places.

Here’s some places where you can look for:

1: User’s Icon Cache. By default located in %Appdata%\Softgrid Client\Icon Cache

 Note that you have to now the GUID of the app you're trying to fetch.

Use WMI for that, or the OSD file.

2: Public Icon Cache. By Default located in Public Documents

 

3: A direct approach: In the folder where the SFT and OSD of the package reside:

You can use code like this:

string orgOsdPath = "";

RegistryKey appsKey = appVKey.OpenSubKey("Applications");

orgOsdPath = appsKey.OpenSubKey(<<Full Name of App-V application>>).GetValue("OriginalDescriptionURL").ToString();

DirectoryInfo di = new DirectoryInfo(Path.GetDirectoryName(orgOsdPath));

string icopath = di.FullName + "\\" + di.Name + " Icons\\" + Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(orgOsdPath) + ".ico";if(File.Exists(icopath))

{

    Do something with: icopath;

}