Custom pictures for commands using icons without satellite DLLs by Carlos Quintero Vivar

To provide custom and transparent pictures for commands of add-ins have been always difficult in the MS dev tools since the late 90's and it continues to be extremely difficult. The official documentation for the latest tool, VS 2005, is the following:

Visual Studio Automation and Extensibility
How to: Display a Custom Icon on the Add-in Button

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms228771(en-US,VS.80).aspx

So, you need to use not only VS 2005, but also resgen.exe, al.exe, explorer.exe and even notepad.exe! Not to mention that it does not mention how to make transparent pixels...