Question

I have a html template that I want to retrieve from the resources file in a VS 2005 C# windows form application.

I’ve created a folder called /html/ within the project, which has one file in it called template.html.

I’ve added the file to my resources. I see its name just as template, and it’s filepath is the fully qualified filename (c:/…/project/html/template.html). It is saved as TEXT rather than binary.

I’ve tried many methods to extract this file, but each time I get a null returned. What am I missing?

        Type t = GetType();
        Assembly a = Assembly.GetAssembly(t);
        string file = "html.template.html"; // I've tried template and template.html
        string resourceName = String.Concat(t.Namespace, ".", file);

        Stream str = a.GetManifestResourceStream(resourceName);

        if (str == null) // It fails here - str is always null.
        {
            throw new FileLoadException("Unrecoverable error. Template could not be found");
        }
        StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(str);
        htmlTemplate = sr.ReadToEnd();

Answer 1

Have you tried looking in Reflector at your output assembly to verify that the resource name is actually what you expect it to be?