Icons on an Office CommandBar

I've recently had a problem with loading images in Office CommandBar buttons. I found some information on the web about it, but it was neither complete or it , but I took that information further anyways.

First of all, I created a subclass called ImageHost which inherits from AxHost

private class ImageHost : System.Windows.Forms.AxHost
{
 public ImageHost() : base("59EE46BA-677D-4d20-BF10-8D8067CB8B33")
 { }

 /// <summary>
 /// Gets a <see cref="stdole.IPictureDisp">from an input
 /// <see cref="System.Drawing.Image">.
 /// <summary>
 public stdole.IPictureDisp GetIPictureDisp(System.Drawing.Image image)
 {
  return (stdole.IPictureDisp)GetIPictureDispFromPicture(image);
 }
 
 /// <summary>
 /// Gets a <see cref="stdole.IPictureDisp"> from an input
 /// <see cref="System.Drawing.Icon">.
 /// </summary>
 /// <remarks>
 /// The benefit of this is when you put Icons in the Resources.resx file.
 /// It's easy to just drop them in.
 /// </remarks>
 public stdole.IPictureDisp GetIPictureDisp(Icon icon)
 {
  System.IO.Stream img = new System.IO.MemoryStream();
  icon.Save(img);
  return GetIPictureDisp(Image.FromStream(img));
 }
}

After setting this up, you must use the image host to get the stdole.IPictureDisp:

CommandBarButton button = CreateButton(
 bar, "My Button",
 Office.MsoButtonStyle.msoButtonIconAndCaption);
button.Picture = iconHost.GetIPictureDisp(
 Properties.Resources.MyButton);

Enjoy!