How to extract visual studio project template icons?

Question

Visual Studio template has a parameter icon to display in create project dialog. It's described as

<VSTemplate Version="3.0.0" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/vstemplate/2005" Type="Project">
<TemplateData>
 <Name Package="{AAFFDC1E-A1C7-47bc-B3DC-9E685DF3959B}" ID="202" />
 <Description Package="{AAFFDC1E-A1C7-47bc-B3DC-9E685DF3959B}" ID="203" />
 <TemplateID>Microsoft.CSharp.ActivityDesignerLibrary</TemplateID>
 <Icon Package="{b3bae735-386c-4030-8329-ef48eeda4036}" ID="4600" />

So what mean

Package="{b3bae735-386c-4030-8329-ef48eeda4036}" ID="4600"

What is package and id ? How to create BitmapSource from it ?

Answer 1

For Visual Studio 2015, the CSharp project templates icons are located in ...\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC#\VCSPackages\csproj.dll

For reference, the Visual Basic template icons are located in ...\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VB\Bin\msvbprj.dll

This is not comprehensive. For example, notice that the WPF package icons are not shown. I am Still reviewing. The icon ID 4600 is shown in the CSharp package, if this is the one you want.