How do I get access to existing icons from other components from a VS package?

Question

I have a Visual Studio package, and I want to display the VS snippets icon - how can I get it?

Answer 1

I found that I needed to use IGlyphService passing in StandardGlyphGroup.GlyphCSharpExpansion and StandardGlyphItem.GlyphItemPublic. This gets me back the standard "scissors" icon for snippets.

Answer 2

You can get the Visual Studio icons from the Visual Studio Image Library. Simply search for snippet to find the snippet icons (sometimes it is quite hard to find a specific icon).

This icons can be freely used AFAIK. The only restriction is, that the have to be used the way they are intended to be used (don't use a delete icon for a menu item that triggers a create operation etc.)