load resource as byte array programmatically

Question

I added image as file and set type as resource (see screenshot) How do I pull it out as byte array without using resx files, etc?

Answer 1

If you dont use the image directly (i.e: from a control if your project is a Windows App) then you could:

1- change the file extension (i.e: *.jpg.data)

2- add the "image" to a resource file RESX

3- access the byte array using: Resources.PathToImages.ResxFileName.ImageName

Note: if you add the image with the extension unchanged the RESX compiler creates a Bitmap property instead of a byte[] property.

Answer 2

The process is described in How to embed and access resources by using Visual C#.

Essentially it requires use of reflection, using the Assembly class.

Stream imageStream = 
            currentAssembly.GetManifestResourceStream("Resources.logo_foot.png");

See How to convert an Stream into a byte[] in C#? for details of how to get a byte[] from a Stream.