SolutionIcon

SolutionIcon is an extension that adds solution-related overlay icon to VS taskbar button.

Use case

I often have multiple Visual Studio instances open.
I never combine taskbar buttons as it makes switching inefficient — however this means that I do not get previews either.

This extension allows to quickly distinguish VS buttons with a glance.

Icon logic

The solution icon is chosen as following:

1. First choice: .editoricon.png (or .ico, .gif, etc) under solution root.
   This is inspired by .editorconfig, however I am not aware of anyone using .editoricon before.

2. Second choice: certain images within the projects.
   This is very limited at the moment, but e.g. favicon.ico might be recognized.

3. Third choice: if no applicable icon is found in solution, a new icon is generated.
   The algorithm uses one or two letters from the solution name, and a color based on solution path.

Requirements

Supports Visual Studio 2012 - 2017.

See also

Visual Studio Gallery