.NET's support for high-color alpha channel icons is nice, but inconsistent. Unfortunately, the goods are in the framework and not in any of the controls, ie. there's no easy way to put a nice high-color image with alpha information on a form, much less choose the size you want. Here's a simple little control that does just that. You specify an icon and the designer will snap to the valid icon sizes, drawing them with the correct resource from the icon file -- not just resizing the 32x32 image.