Input file
ICON
- Full Name: Icon Image Format
- Developer: N/A
Output file
DLL
- Full Name: Dynamic Link Library Format
- Developer: Microsoft
What is ICON file?
The ICON .ico file extension is a type of image file used to store icon graphics. Being a raster image file format, the ICON files contain images in either monochrome, 16-color, 256-color or True Color mode. As the name implies, these files are generally used to represent icons or tiny images which can be used for a number of purposes such as shortcut icons, program icons, website’s favicon etc. All Windows operating systems since Windows 1.0 support the . [ ⏩ ] ICON file extension
What is DLL file?
A DLL (Dynamic Link Library) file extension is used to store a library of functions or data that can be used by multiple applications at the same time commonly found on Microsoft Windows, macOS, and other operating systems. DLL files are basically shared libraries which can be used by more than one program at a time. [ ⏩ ] DLL file extension
Software, that you can use to convert
How to convert the file from ICON to DLL?
To successfully convert the ICON file to DLL, you should install one of the applications from the list. After installing the software, open the program and select the file you want to convert (file-name.ICON). The next step is to select the target format from the list, in this case DLL (usually converters allow you to convert to several different formats, so check out their features - maybe one of the available formats will suit you more than DLL).
What is a file conversion?
A data conversion is normally an automated process to some extent. The effect of the operation of one program is automatically the input product of another application. If that does not happen we need to help the process a little bit and convert the file on our own, e.g. ICON to DLL. To obtain a matched structure of the data, it is necessary to use an appropriate converter.
Program for converting ICON files to DLL files is a kind of a "binary code translator" compensating for the differences in the code or translating it in such a way so that another application could use it. For us, as users, the visible change will be only another file extension. (After converting the file, it will be the extension DLL, while before this step we had the ICON file). For the programs, the difference is on a much higher level – either the application will be able to open a new DLL file, or not.