Setting custom icon for your webparts

Scenario:
I was trying to solve a small mystery for having a custom icon for all my webparts to be able to identify them quickly.

Solution:
I knew Out of Box webpart can do this, so I started looking into existing webpart definition files and found PartImageLarge. PartImageLarge is the property you need to set to change the icon displayed.


Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<WebPart xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WebPart/v2">
 <Assembly>Microsoft.SharePoint, Version=12.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c</Assembly>
 <TypeName>Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages.ContentEditorWebPart</TypeName>
 <Title>$Resources:core,ContentEditorWebPartTitle;</Title>
 <Description>$Resources:core,ContentEditorWebPartDescription;</Description>
 <PartImageLarge>/_layouts/images/customicon16.gif</PartImageLarge>
</WebPart>

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