How do I get the resource name from the resource object?

Question

Say I have an exe added into my resources folder. Now how can I get the name (or even the fullpath from which its linked so that I can still have the file name) of the resource as string?

From Properties.Resources.myApp how do I get the string "myApp". ToString() doesnt work. If it is important to embed the file to get the name, I can.

Edit: My question is not specifically to get the name of exe resource. But that one generic approach which gives me the name of the resource! For instance what if my resource is a bitmap image? I need to print "Lily" from Properties.Resources.Lily. How to achieve this? ToString wont work anyways.

Answer 1

It's quite easy using Linq Expressions:

using System.Linq.Expressions;
//...
static string GetNameOf<T>(Expression<Func<T>> property)
{
  return (property.Body as MemberExpression).Member.Name;
}
// Usage:
var s = GetNameOf(() => Properties.Resources.Lily);

s shoud be Lily

Answer 2

I know this is very old, but the accepted answer is no longer necessarily the best answer. As of C# 6.0 you can just use nameof(...):

string resourceName = nameof(Properties.Resources.MyResourceName);
// resourceName == "MyResourceName"

Much simpler!