loading managed resources from c# and passing it to Native CPP code as a stream handle

Question

I have a file that I have embedded as a resource in a managed C# assembly. I would like to pass the pointer to that resource and its size to some native code so it can extract it for me if needed. Are there C# api's that give me the intptr of that embedded resource?

Answer 1

Have you heard of C++ / CLI ? It's a language you can use to easily go back and forth between C# and C++. You might want to give it a try.

Answer 2

Not without first loading the resource data. Perhaps an unmanaged resource would be more appropriate in this case?