You can have it embedded (build action set to Resource) as well, this is how to retrieve it from there:
private static UnmanagedMemoryStream GetResourceStream(string resName)
{
var assembly = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly();
var strResources = assembly.GetName().Name + ".g.resources";
var rStream = assembly.GetManifestResourceStream(strResources);
var resourceReader = new ResourceReader(rStream);
var items = resourceReader.OfType<DictionaryEntry>();
var stream = items.First(x => (x.Key as string) == resName.ToLower()).Value;
return (UnmanagedMemoryStream)stream;
}
private void Button1_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
string resName = "Test.txt";
var file = GetResourceStream(resName);
using (var reader = new StreamReader(file))
{
var line = reader.ReadLine();
MessageBox.Show(line);
}
}
(Some code taken from this answer by Charles)