List all embedded resources in a folder

Question

In my solution a had a folder with a few files. All this files have the Build Action "Embedded Resource".

With this code I can get a file:

assembly.GetManifestResourceStream(assembly.GetName().Name + ".Folder.File.txt"); 

But is there any way to get all *.txt files in this folder? A list of names or a method to iterate through them all?

Answer 1

You could check out

assembly.GetManifestResourceNames() 

which returns an array of strings of all the resources contained. You could then filter that list to find all your *.txt files stored as embedded resources.

See MSDN docs for GetManifestResourceNames for details.

Answer 2

Try this, returns an array with all .txt files inside Folder directory.

private string[] GetAllTxt() {     var executingAssembly = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly();     string folderName = string.Format("{0}.Resources.Folder", executingAssembly.GetName().Name);     return executingAssembly         .GetManifestResourceNames()         .Where(r => r.StartsWith(folderName) && r.EndsWith(".txt"))         //.Select(r => r.Substring(folderName.Length + 1))         .ToArray(); } 

NOTE: Uncomment the //.Select(... line in order to get the filename.