diff --git a/tools/msvs/res/node.ico b/tools/msvs/res/node.ico
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a2e03bb470
Binary files /dev/null and b/tools/msvs/res/node.ico differ
diff --git a/tools/msvs/res/node.rc b/tools/msvs/res/node.rc
index aec868d340..0bdb2a0dc7 100644
--- a/tools/msvs/res/node.rc
+++ b/tools/msvs/res/node.rc
@@ -22,6 +22,11 @@
 #include "winresrc.h"
 #include "node_version.h"
 
+
+// Application icon
+1 ICON node.ico
+
+
 // Version resource
 VS_VERSION_INFO VERSIONINFO
  FILEVERSION NODE_MAJOR_VERSION,NODE_MINOR_VERSION,NODE_PATCH_VERSION,0