You know, I'm all for making some things available for free; but at the same time want to protect my “property” as much as possible.  With great tools such as Reflector being available; you really need to consider using obfuscation to at least make it a little more difficult to reverse engineer your code.  In addition, ...

When loading embedded resources like bitmaps and icons from your assembly, such as using the following method as described by Windows Forms Programming in Visual Basic .NET (Chris Sells & Justin Gehtland): NotifyIcon1.Icon = New Icon(Me.GetType, ''graphic.ico'')   It sure seems straight forward enough.  It looks a whole lot ...