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tennis779
tennis779

Reputation: 348

Accessing the Files in the Resource Folder .Net 3.5

I am trying to create a temporary file then change the temporary file to a .dotx that I have embedded into my C# program in Visual Studio. The code that I have below does not work correctly, the third line of Code where I try to reference my File in the Namespace.Properties.Resources.Myfile returns a build error saying there is no definition for the call.

Does anyone know of a better way to access this file in the folder I need.

string fileName = System.IO.Path.GetTempFileName();  // create a temp file
fileName = Path.ChangeExtension(fileName,"dotx");    //change the ext to dotx

File.WriteAllBytes(fileName, NameSpace.Properties.Resources.MyFile.dotx);
//This line of code returns the build error

Upvotes: 0

Views: 533

Answers (2)

user3505782
user3505782

Reputation: 53

If you want to use File.WriteAllBytes you have to open your existed file, read it to byte array and than pass that array into File.WriteAllBytes

using (var filestream = File.Open(YOUR_EXISTED_PATH, FileMode.Open))
                {
                    byte[] buffer = new byte[filestream.Length];
                    filestream.Read(buffer, 0, (int) filestream.Length);
                    File.WriteAllBytes(YOUR_NEW_PATH, buffer);
                }

But I like previous solution more.

Upvotes: 0

Tsukasa
Tsukasa

Reputation: 6562

What about

public void WriteResourceToFile(string resourceName, string fileName)
{
    using(var resource = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetManifestResourceStream(resourceName))
    {
        using(var file = new FileStream(fileName, FileMode.Create, FileAccess.Write))
        {
            resource.CopyTo(file);
        } 
    }
}

Upvotes: 1

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