One of the challenges in any application development is trying to make your application look like it's really designed for the target environment. Using the same icons/images that are used in the target environment, and for the same purposes, helps greatly with this.

It's great to see that Microsoft have published an image library for Visual Studio that lets your own applications use the same images that they use in the operating system.

You'll find info about it (and the download) here:

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35825