RAW Data from embedded resource image

Question

I am trying to retrieve an image from an Embedded resource, and displaying it in its RAW DATA format (ie-> junk text data).

Basically, I am running into a wall with everything I attempt. Can someone show me how to do this properly? Thanks.

Answer 1

You can use the following msdn ref

System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly.GetManifestResourceStream(fileName)

That will give you a Stream which you can then use code cite to convert to a byte array which is pretty much the raw data.

private Function GetStreamAsByteArray(ByVal stream As System.IO.Stream) As Byte()
Dim streamLength As Integer = Convert.ToInt32(stream.Length)
Dim fileData As Byte() = New Byte(streamLength) {}
' Read the file into a byte array
stream.Read(fileData, 0, streamLength)
stream.Close()
Return fileData
End Function