Sparse package icons need resources.pri at the external location

The shell resolves Square44x44Logo through the package resource index;
this package never had a resources.pri, so every icon lookup failed and
Start/taskbar showed a generic icon regardless of the Assets PNGs.
Empirically (SHLoadIndirectString against the live package), with
AllowExternalContent MRT loads resources from the EXTERNAL location,
not the manifest's folder — so Register-vRIO.ps1 now copies Assets\ and
resources.pri next to the exe before registering. Make-Assets.ps1
regenerates the PNGs from vwe.ico and rebuilds the pri (needs makepri
from the Windows SDK / SDK.BuildTools NuGet). Package version bumped;
the MrtCache is keyed by package full name, so same-version
re-registration serves stale lookups.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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2026-07-06 19:43:37 -05:00
co-authored by Claude Fable 5
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@@ -16,10 +16,13 @@
xmlns:rescap="http://schemas.microsoft.com/appx/manifest/foundation/windows10/restrictedcapabilities"
IgnorableNamespaces="uap uap3 uap10 rescap">
<!-- Bump Version on any Assets/resources.pri change: the shell's MrtCache
is keyed by package full name and serves stale (even failed) icon
lookups for a re-registered same-version package. -->
<Identity Name="VWE.vRIO"
ProcessorArchitecture="neutral"
Publisher="CN=VWE"
Version="1.0.0.0" />
Version="1.0.0.1" />
<Properties>
<DisplayName>vRIO</DisplayName>