Material Folder Icons

Material Folder Icons for Visual Studio improves Solution Explorer readability by applying Material-style icons to recognized project folders.

This extension is for the Visual Studio IDE. It is not a Visual Studio Code icon theme.

Features

• Applies Material-style folder icons in Visual Studio Solution Explorer.
• Supports closed and open folder icon assets.
• Recognizes common folder names such as Controllers, Configurations, Constants, Extensions, Files, Helper, Installers, logs, Middlewares, and wwwroot.
• Uses case-insensitive folder name matching.
• Preserves meaningful folder names such as .github and node_modules.
• Keeps Visual Studio default behavior for unknown or unsupported folders.
• Focuses only on folder icons and does not replace file icons.
• Does not modify project files, source files, or folder structure.
• Packages bundled SVG folder assets and generated image resources inside the VSIX.

Compatibility

• Visual Studio 2022 17.14+ and Visual Studio 2026
• .NET Framework 4.7.2 runtime requirement
• C# SDK-style projects are the primary tested project type

Current Limitations

Visual Studio project systems can restrict external icon replacement APIs. When a project system rejects icon updates, the extension logs the limitation instead of changing unrelated behavior.

License And Attribution

This extension includes folder icon assets derived from Atom Material Icons for JetBrains, licensed under the MIT License.

The bundled SVG folder icons and generated PNG resources retain the upstream copyright and permission notice.

Upstream copyright:

Copyright (c) 2015-2024 Elior "Mallowigi" Boukhobza

See the packaged Resources/License.txt and repository THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md for full third-party license text and attribution.