"Walter Wang [MSFT]" wrote:

> Hi Michael,
>
> To embed a win32 resource in .NET application, you can following these
> steps:
>
> 1) Suppose we have a file "logo.png" in the project directory, create two
> files "resource.h" and "SplashScreenWin32Resources.rc":
>
> resource.h:
>
> #define IDB_SPLASHSCREEN 101
>
>
> SplashScreenWin32Resources.rc:
>
> #include "resource.h"
>
> IDB_SPLASHSCREEN PNG "Logo.png"
>
>
> Note you don't need to include these three files in the project.
>
> 2) Open your project's properties dialog, in the Build Events tab, input
> following command in the "Pre-Build event command line":
>
> "$(DevEnvDir)..\Tools\Bin\rc.exe" /d "UNICODE"
> "$(ProjectDir)SplashScreenWin32Resources.rc"
>
>
>
> This will compile the .rc file using resource compiler everytime you build
> your project; and the generated file will be SplashScreenWin32Resources.res.
>
>
> 3) Now switch to the first tab "Application" of the project properties
> dialog, in the resource part, select "Resource File" and input
> "SplashScreenWin32Resources.RES" as the file name.
>
> 4) Rebuild your project, it will not contains the win32 resource file.
>
> 5) Use following code to load the resource:
>
> [DllImport("kernel32.dll")]
> static extern IntPtr FindResource(IntPtr hModule, int lpName,
> string lpType);
>
> private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
> {
> IntPtr hRes =
> FindResource(Marshal.GetHINSTANCE(this.GetType().Module), 101, "PNG");
> }
>
>
> Hope this helps.
>
>
> Sincerely,
> Walter Wang (wawang@online.microsoft.com, remove 'online.')
> Microsoft Online Community Support
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