Retreiving an embedded resource (bitmap) from a DLL

[Guest]

Hi Al

You can add a Bitmap to a VB class library and set it’s build action to embedded resource. How do you then get that image (i.e. load it into a PictureBox control) from another vb application knowing only the name of the DLL and of the Bitmap

Many thanks for any help with this

Julia Beresfor

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

You can add a Bitmap to a VB class library and set it’s build action to embedded resource. How do you then get that image (i.e. load it into a PictureBox control) from another vb application knowing only the name of the DLL and of the Bitmap?

I would provide a method in the class library that takes the ID and returns an 'Image'...

 

[Mick Doherty]

Assuming you have a Dll with the Namespace MyDll and the embedded resource
MyBitmap.bmp resides in the class MyResources and there is a reference to
the dll in your project.

Picturebox.Image = New Bitmap(GetType(MyDll.MyResources), "Bitmap.bmp")

note that the resource name is cAse sEnstive. i.e. Mybitmap.bmp <>
Mybitmap.BMP

Hi All

You can add a Bitmap to a VB class library and set it's build action to

embedded resource. How do you then get that image (i.e. load it into a
PictureBox control) from another vb application knowing only the name of the
DLL and of the Bitmap?