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Revision: 12315
at March 10, 2009 10:17 by chavcho


Initial Code
Imports System.Reflection.Assembly

'returns an embedded resource image by name
Public Function EmbeddedImage(ByVal Name As String) As Bitmap
    Return New Bitmap(GetExecutingAssembly.GetManifestResourceStream(Name))
End Function

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Initial Description
Use this to extract an image embedded as a resource in your project. Call the function supplying the full path to the resource, for example:

Dim myImage as Bitmap = EmbeddedIcon("MyApplication1.myImage.png")

Where "MyApplication1" is the root namespace for the project.

Initial Title
Extract an Image Embedded as a Resource

Initial Tags
image

Initial Language
VB.NET