Question

I have a text file within my dll. Whenever I try to access it from my .exe program, it fails because it tries to find the file from within my .exe program. Please is there anyway I can go about this.

Answer 1

You need to load the assembly and using resourcemanager you can retrieve the text file as below

// Gets a reference to the same assembly that 
// contains the type that is creating the ResourceManager.
System.Reflection.Assembly myAssembly = typeof(Program).Assembly;

// Gets a reference to a different assembly.
System.Reflection.Assembly myOtherAssembly;
myOtherAssembly = System.Reflection.Assembly.Load("ResourceAssembly");

// Creates the ResourceManager.
System.Resources.ResourceManager myManager = new 
   System.Resources.ResourceManager("ResourceNamespace.myResources", 
   myAssembly);

// Retrieves String and Image resources.
UnmanagedMemoryStream x = myManager.GetStream("StringResource");

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