How to Read an embedded resource as array of bytes without writing it to disk?
Solution 1
You are actually already reading the stream to a byte array, why not just stop there?
public static byte[] ExtractResource(String filename)
{
System.Reflection.Assembly a = System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly();
using (Stream resFilestream = a.GetManifestResourceStream(filename))
{
if (resFilestream == null) return null;
byte[] ba = new byte[resFilestream.Length];
resFilestream.Read(ba, 0, ba.Length);
return ba;
}
}
edit: See comments for a preferable reading pattern.
Solution 2
Simple alternative using a MemoryStream
:
var ms = new MemoryStream();
await resFilestream.CopyToAsync(ms);
var bytes = ms.ToArray();
Solution 3
Keep in mind that Embedded resource filename = Assemblyname.fileName
string fileName = "test.pdf";
System.Reflection.Assembly a = System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly();
string fileName = a.GetName().Name + "." + "test.pdf";
using (Stream resFilestream = a.GetManifestResourceStream(fileName))
{
if (resFilestream == null) return null;
byte[] ba = new byte[resFilestream.Length];
resFilestream.Read(ba, 0, ba.Length);
var byteArray = ba;
}
Solution 4
if you are reading an embeded resource here is a simple way to do so.
string resourcePath = "pack://application:,,,/resource/location/S_2/{0}";
StreamResourceInfo resInfo = Application.GetResourceStream(new Uri(resourcePath));
if (resInfo == null)
{
throw new Exception("Resource not found: " + resourcePath);
}
var ms = new System.IO.MemoryStream();
await resInfo.Stream.CopyToAsync(ms);
byte[] bytes = ms.ToArray();
Comments
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Rafik Bari over 2 years
In my application I compile another program from source.cs file using CodeDom.Compiler and I embed some resources ( exe and dll files ) at compile time using :
// .... rest of code if (provider.Supports(GeneratorSupport.Resources)) { cp.EmbeddedResources.Add("MyFile.exe"); } if (provider.Supports(GeneratorSupport.Resources)) { cp.EmbeddedResources.Add("New.dll"); } // ....rest of code
In the compiled file, I need to read the embedded resources as array of bytes. Now I'm doing that by extracting the resources to disk using the function below and the use
File.ReadAllBytes("extractedfile.exe"); File.ReadAllBytes("extracteddll.dll");
I do this after extracting the two files to disk using this function :
public static void ExtractSaveResource(String filename, String location) { // Assembly assembly = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly(); System.Reflection.Assembly a = System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly(); // Stream stream = assembly.GetManifestResourceStream("Installer.Properties.mydll.dll"); // or whatever // string my_namespace = a.GetName().Name.ToString(); Stream resFilestream = a.GetManifestResourceStream(filename); if (resFilestream != null) { BinaryReader br = new BinaryReader(resFilestream); FileStream fs = new FileStream(location, FileMode.Create); // say BinaryWriter bw = new BinaryWriter(fs); byte[] ba = new byte[resFilestream.Length]; resFilestream.Read(ba, 0, ba.Length); bw.Write(ba); br.Close(); bw.Close(); resFilestream.Close(); } // this.Close(); }
How can I do the same thing (Get the embedded resources as array of bytes) but without writing anything to hard disk?