Almost all UI applications need icons and bitmaps. However, it's not an easy task to create or find icons which match the Windows style, look like well known Microsoft icons and are royalty-free ... unless you use the Visual Studio Image Library which contains over 5,000 high quality icons and bitmaps from Visual Studio, Office, Windows and other Microsoft applications.
(and an archive folder with VS 2010 icons and bitmaps).
The screenshot shows some icons from the category Common Elements / png in the style of Windows 8.
The library also contains icons in the old, more colorful Windows Vista style. You find them in an archive subfolder. A pdf document explains the icon-mapping between both styles.
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Blogpost of the Visual Studio Blog. Weston Hutchins, Program Manager of the Visual Studio Shell Team, highlights the 2010 version of the image library.
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