Read a .txt resource embedded in a Class Library

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Carlos Sosa Albert - 07 Jun 2007 21:27 GMT

Hello guys,

Would anybody be so kind to tell me how to read a .txt I embedded in a C#
class library?

Thanks a lot,

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Carlos Sosa Albert - 07 Jun 2007 21:53 GMT

So... I ended up with this code (now I'm looking how to convert a
StreamReader to a String using C#
But actually I don't remember it was so hard to obtain a string from a .txt
file embedded in a VB project. Am I wrong?

Assembly _assembly;
_assembly = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly();
StreamReader _textStreamReader;
_textStreamReader = new
StreamReader(_assembly.GetManifestResourceStream("MyClassLibrary.MyFolder.MyFile.txt"));

> Hello guys,
>
> Would anybody be so kind to tell me how to read a .txt I embedded in a C#
> class library?
>
> Thanks a lot,

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Jon Skeet [C# MVP] - 07 Jun 2007 22:39 GMT

> So... I ended up with this code (now I'm looking how to convert a
> StreamReader to a String using C#
[quoted text clipped - 6 lines]
> _textStreamReader = new
> StreamReader(_assembly.GetManifestResourceStream("MyClassLibrary.MyFolder.MyFile.txt"));

By the time you've put the assignments in the same statements as the
declarations, that's two (admittedly long) lines of code. If that's
*really* too much, you can put it into a helper method really easily.

As for converting a StreamReader to a String - StreamReader.ReadToEnd
is your friend :)

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Carlos Sosa Albert - 08 Jun 2007 14:47 GMT

Actually, I was sure I didn't have to specify "by hand" MyFile.txt but the
helper was doing so.
But maybe I wrote some code then to do that.

>> So... I ended up with this code (now I'm looking how to convert a
>> StreamReader to a String using C#
[quoted text clipped - 14 lines]
> As for converting a StreamReader to a String - StreamReader.ReadToEnd
> is your friend :)

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Carlos Sosa Albert - 08 Jun 2007 14:59 GMT

Oh, I remember... I used this... Wonder if it has something wrong...?
String xx = MyLibrary.Properties.MyResource;

Thanks Jon!

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