Visual Studio Icons

The Visual Studio Icons are helpful as they pictorially convey a lot of meaning. However, as there are so many of them it sometimes gets hard to know what an icon denotes. In some cases, icons within Visual Studio have tool-tips that convey their purpose but not always. After extensive searching, I have found that MSDN doesn't have a single point of reference or a map where all the icons & their descriptions are listed. I plan to compile them here whenever I spot a table reference while I'm MSDN surfing.

Class View and Object Browser Icons

Icon	Description	Icon	Description
	Namespace		Method or Function
	Class		Operator
	Interface		Property
	Structure		Field or Variable
	Union		Event
	Enum		Constant
	TypeDef		Enum Item
	Module		Map Item
	Intrinsic		External Declaration
	Delegate		Macro
	Exception		Template
	Map		Unknown or Error
	Global		Type Forwarding
	Extension Method

The following signal icons apply to all the previous icons and indicate their accessibility.

Icon	Description
	Protected. Accessible from the containing class or type, or those derived from the containing class or type.
	Private. Accessible only in the containing class or type.
	Internal. Accessible only from this component.
	Friend. Accessible only from the project.
	Shortcut. A shortcut to the object.

Source Control Item Status icons in Solution Explorer

Icon	Status	Description
None	Blank	Represents an item whose Team Foundation source control state is unknown.
	Checked in	Represents an item that is under Team Foundation source control and has no pending changes against it.
	Checked out	Represents an item for which the current user has a pending change in their current workspace, and the item is not exclusively locked.
	Orphaned	Represents an item that has been orphaned because of a dependency break.
	Editable	Represents an item that is writable.
	Read-only	Represents an item that is not writable.
	Disabled	Represents an item that should have been added to Team Foundation source control because the item is a child of a source controlled solution or project but could not be added.
	Checked out exclusive	Represents an item for which the current user has pending changes in their current workspace, and the item is exclusively locked by the current user.
	Checked out shared other	Represents an item that the current user does not have checked out in their current workspace, but the item does have a pending change in another workspace (owned by either this user or another user).
	Checked out exclusive other	Represents an item that the current user does not have checked out in his or her current workspace, but the item does have a pending change in another workspace (owned by either this user or another user) and is exclusively locked there.
	Excluded from source control	Represents an item that is not under Team Foundation source control because the user has explicitly excluded the item from source control.
	Pending addition	Represents an item that is not currently on the source control server, but is being added to source control by the current user (has a pending change of add).
	Synchronously opened	Represents an item that belongs to a project that Visual Studio is opening asynchronously.

Also see:

• 6 things I dislike about MSDN
• Visual Studio 2013 Class View and Object Browser Icons