# How to customize the pointstype

**URL:** <https://community.thinkgeo.com/t/how-to-customize-the-pointstype/963>\
**Category:** WinForms\
**Created:** [January 13, 2010, 10:37am UTC](https://community.thinkgeo.com/t/how-to-customize-the-pointstype/963 "2010-01-13T10:37:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![katherine](https://community.thinkgeo.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/f9ae1b/32.png) [@katherine](https://community.thinkgeo.com/u/katherine)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2010, 10:37am UTC](https://community.thinkgeo.com/t/how-to-customize-the-pointstype/963/1 "2010-01-13T10:37:34Z")

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Hi,

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I&nbsp;have&nbsp;a&nbsp;shapefile&nbsp;with&nbsp;some&nbsp;points.&nbsp;When&nbsp;I&nbsp;load&nbsp;the&nbsp;shapefile,&nbsp;I&nbsp;want&nbsp;to&nbsp;mark&nbsp;the&nbsp;points&nbsp;with&nbsp;my&nbsp;ico&nbsp;file&nbsp;(&nbsp;Wells.ico&nbsp;is&nbsp;a&nbsp;bitmap&nbsp;file)

How&nbsp;do&nbsp;I&nbsp;do&nbsp;this?&nbsp;Any&nbsp;code&nbsp;sample&nbsp;will&nbsp;be&nbsp;appreciated.&nbsp;Thanks.

Katherine

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**Author:** ![Val](https://community.thinkgeo.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/e56c9b/32.png) [@Val](https://community.thinkgeo.com/u/Val)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2010, 11:19am UTC](https://community.thinkgeo.com/t/how-to-customize-the-pointstype/963/2 "2010-01-13T11:19:01Z")

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&nbsp;This&nbsp;is&nbsp;easy.&nbsp;If&nbsp;you&nbsp;want&nbsp;to&nbsp;display&nbsp;all&nbsp;the&nbsp;point&nbsp;features&nbsp;in&nbsp;your&nbsp;layer&nbsp;with&nbsp;an&nbsp;icon.&nbsp;You&nbsp;can&nbsp;use&nbsp;the&nbsp;code&nbsp;below.&nbsp;I&nbsp;also&nbsp;let&nbsp;you&nbsp;know&nbsp;that&nbsp;you&nbsp;can&nbsp;also&nbsp;use&nbsp;a&nbsp;different&nbsp;icon&nbsp;for&nbsp;each&nbsp;feature&nbsp;based&nbsp;on&nbsp;some&nbsp;value&nbsp;of&nbsp;a&nbsp;column.&nbsp;See&nbsp;for&nbsp;example&nbsp;the&nbsp;sample&nbsp;app&nbsp;"Draw&nbsp;features&nbsp;based&nbsp;on&nbsp;Values"&nbsp;in&nbsp;the&nbsp;Styles&nbsp;section.

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`ShapeFileFeatureLayer myLayer = new ShapeFileFeatureLayer(@"..\..\Data\mypointshapefile.shp");            myLayer.ZoomLevelSet.ZoomLevel01.ApplyUntilZoomLevel = ApplyUntilZoomLevel.Level20;            myLayer.ZoomLevelSet.ZoomLevel01.DefaultPointStyle.PointType = PointType.Bitmap;            myLayer.ZoomLevelSet.ZoomLevel01.DefaultPointStyle.Image = new GeoImage(@"..\..\Data\well.gif");            LayerOverlay staticOverlay = new LayerOverlay();            staticOverlay.Layers.Add("MyLayer", myLayer);            winformsMap1.Overlays.Add(staticOverlay);`