Jason Isom
June 26th, 2005, 11:27 AM
Are you talking about adding resources at compile-time or runtime? If you're talking about compile-time, do you have Visual Studio .NET ?
If you do have Visual Studio .NET, just right click in the Solution Explorer and click Add > New Item... and select Bitmap if you want to create your own bitmaps, or Add > Existing Item... to add an already created bitmap.
Then find your bitmap in the Solution Explorer, and in the properties window, change Build Action to Embedded Resource if you wish it to be compiled into the executable and not linked...
To get a list of all resources, use the following code
// get a reference to the current assembly
System.Reflection.Assembly a = System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly();
// get a list of resource names from the manifest
string [] resNames = a.GetManifestResourceNames();
Console.WriteLine(String.Format("Found {0} resources\r\n", resNames.Length));
Console.WriteLine("----------\r\n");
foreach(string s in resNames)
{
Console.WriteLine("\r\n");
if(s.EndsWith(".bmp"))
{
Console.WriteLine(s);
}
}
I use the following code to use the resource images in my code....
public Card(char f, char s)
{
face = f;
suit = s;
System.Reflection.Assembly myAssembly;
myAssembly = System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly();
System.IO.Stream imageFile =
myAssembly.GetManifestResourceStream("Card_Deck.images." + f + s + ".bmp");
image = Image.FromStream(imageFile);
}
The reason this line says "myAssembly.GetManifestResourceStream("Card_Deck.images." + f + s + ".bmp");" is because it seems like it names the resource files in the form of "<NAMESPACE>.<FOLDERNAME>.<IMGFILE>"
I put all my bitmaps in an image folder in my solution explorer, so there is a chance that you don't need it.
If you don't have Visual Studio.NET, then I'm sure there are some flags for csc that will do it, although I have absolutely no clue what they are.
I hope the above posts helps...I'm relatively new to C#.NET, so I apologise in advance if I'm WAY off base.