EVC++: Loading an icon from a file for use with DrawIcon

Hi all,

I'm desperately hunting for sample code that shows me how to load an
icon from an icon file into my eVC++ application which can then be
displayed on a today screen through the DrawIcon command.

I've tried LoadIcon and LoadImage. The former ends in a dead end
because I need to use MAKEINTRESOURCE and an integer. Except that I
don't know the integer as I want a file.

The latter I can find samples, but they don't include any comments,
any help or indeed anything that would indicate how I would get a
variable of the type HICON which can then be passed to DrawImage.

Google groups gives me nothing, Google gives me nothing.

Can anyone offer any suggestions for sample code?

Many thanks,

Richard