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If you want to drop a text file, an XML file, an icon, or a bitmap, or any other file, into your project directory and have it embedded with your solution, this will make it much easier to retrieve these resources. For instance, if you drop a file called "MainMenu.xml" into a project subdirectory called "Resources" (or, "[project directory]\Resources\MainMenu.xml") and you've marked it as an Embedded Resource, you can retrieve it programmatically like so: XmlDocument mainMenu = (XmlDocument)App.GetEmbeddedResource("Resources/MainMenu.xml");

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By	Jon Davis
Level	Intermediate
User Rating	4.8 (29 globes from 6 users)
Compatibility	C#
Category	Miscellaneous
World	.Net (C#, VB.net)
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// // This code is translated to VB.Net at // http://www.jondavis.net/files/misc/GetEmbeddedResource_VB.txt // using System; // TODO: Set the following line. namespace MyProjectNamespace { public class App { public static System.Reflection.Assembly Assembly { get { return ClassType.Assembly; } } public static Type ClassType { get { return typeof(App); } } ///

/// The type of object is determined by the filename extension. /// For example, ".txt", ".htm[l]" are strings, ".xml" is an /// XmlDocument, ".ico" is an Icon, ".bmp", ".gif", ".jpg", /// ".tif", and ".png" are Bitmaps. Anything else is just a /// stream. ///

/// The filename of the embedded resource. /// If recognized, a String, XmlDocument, Icon, or Bitmap. /// Otherwise, a Stream object. public static object GetEmbeddedResource(string resName) { resName = resName.Replace("/", ".").Replace("\", "."); if (resName.IndexOf(App.ClassType.Namespace) != 0) { resName = App.ClassType.Namespace + "." + resName; } Stream s = App.Assembly.GetManifestResourceStream(resName); if (s != null) { string ext = resName.Substring(resName.LastIndexOf(".") + 1); switch (ext.ToLower()) { case "txt": case "htm": case "html": StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(s); return sr.ReadToEnd(); case "xml": case "config": StreamReader sr2 = new StreamReader(s); XmlDocument xDoc = new XmlDocument(); xDoc.LoadXml(sr2.ReadToEnd()); return xDoc; case "ico": return new System.Drawing.Icon(s); case "bmp": case "gif": case "jpg": case "jpeg": case "exif": case "wmf": case "emf": case "png": case "tif": case "tiff": return new System.Drawing.Bitmap(s); default: return s; } } return null; } } }