How to Add Icons to the Windows Phone Project (C#/.NET)

Windows Phone SDK comes with a list of Icons.

They are available in the following location

 Location of Icons in Visual Studio (Windows Phone Development):

On 32-bit operating systems: C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows Phone\v7.1\Icons On 64-bit operating systems: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows Phone\v7.1\Icons

To add an icon to the project: Icons can be either created or added;

If you want to create a new Icon
 file use the following option

To add an existing icon, select from the list of Icons
 
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