Load image from resources area of project in C

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I have an image in my project stored at Resources myimage jpg   How can I dynamically load this image into Bitmap object

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The best thing is to add them as Image Resources in the Resources settings in the Project. Then you can get the image directly by doing Resources.myimage. This will get the image via a generated C# property.

If you just set the image as Embedded Resource you can get it with:

string name = "Resources.myimage.jpg"
string namespaceName = "MyCompany.MyNamespace";
string resource = namespaceName + "." + name;
Type type = typeof(MyCompany.MyNamespace.MyTypeFromSameAssemblyAsResource);
Bitmap image = new Bitmap(type.Assembly.GetManifestResourceStream(resource));

Where MyTypeFromSameAssemblyAsResource is any type that you have in your assembly.

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this toolStrip1   new System Windows Forms ToolStrip    this toolStrip1 Location   new System Drawing Point 0  0   this toolStrip1 Name    toolStrip1   this toolStrip1 Size   new System Drawing Size 444  25   this toolStrip1 TabIndex   0  this toolStrip1 Text    toolStrip1   object O   global  WindowsFormsApplication1 Properties Resources ResourceManager GetObject  best robust ghost     ToolStripButton btn   new ToolStripButton  m1    btn DisplayStyle   ToolStripItemDisplayStyle Image  btn Image    Image O  this toolStrip1 Items Add btn

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Code I use in several of my projects    It assumes that you store images in resource only as bitmaps not icons      public static Bitmap GetImageByName string imageName                System Reflection Assembly asm   System Reflection Assembly GetExecutingAssembly            string resourceName   asm GetName   Name     Properties Resources           var rm   new System Resources ResourceManager resourceName  asm           return  Bitmap rm GetObject imageName

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You can get a reference to the image the following way   Image myImage   Resources myImage    If you want to make a copy of the image  you ll need to do the following   Bitmap bmp   new Bitmap Resources myImage     Don t forget to dispose of bmp when you re done with it   If you don t know the name of the resource image at compile-time  you can use a resource manager   ResourceManager rm   Resources ResourceManager  Bitmap myImage    Bitmap rm GetObject  myImage      The benefit of the ResourceManager is that you can use it where Resources myImage would normally be out of scope  or where you want to dynamically access resources   Additionally  this works for sounds  config files  etc

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You can also save the bmp in a var like this   var bmp   Resources ImageName    hope it helps

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I looked at the designer code from one of my projects and noticed it used this notation  myButton Image   global  MyProjectName Properties Resources max    where max is the name of the resource I uploaded into the project

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Use below one  I have tested this with Windows form s Grid view cell   Object rm   Properties Resources ResourceManager GetObject  Resource Image    Bitmap myImage    Bitmap rm  Image image   myImage    Name of  Resource Image   you can find from the project    Under the project s name  you can find Properties  Expand it  There you can see Resources resx file  Open it  Apply your file name as  Resource Image

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Way easier than most all of the proposed answers  tslMode Image   global  ProjectName Properties Resources ImageName

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Are you using Windows Forms  If you ve added the image using the Properties Resources UI  you get access to the image from generated code  so you can simply do this   var bmp   new Bitmap WindowsFormsApplication1 Properties Resources myimage

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I suggest   System Reflection Assembly thisExe  thisExe   System Reflection Assembly GetExecutingAssembly    System IO Stream file        thisExe GetManifestResourceStream  AssemblyName ImageFile jpg    Image yourImage   Image FromStream file     From msdn   http   msdn microsoft com en-us library aa287676 v vs 71  aspx  Using Image FromStream is better because you don t need to know the format of the image  bmp  png

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In my case -- I was using Icons in my resource  but I needed to add them dynamically as Images to some ToolStripMenuItem s    So in the method that I created  which is where the code snippet below comes from   I had to convert the icon resources to bitmaps before I could return them for addition to my MenuItem     string imageName   myImageNameStr  imageName   imageName Replace            Icon myIcon    Icon Resources ResourceManager GetObject imageName   return myIcon ToBitmap      Something else to be aware of  if your image icon has spaces       in its name when you add them to your resource  VS will automatically replace those spaces with     s    Because  spaces are not a valid character when naming your resource   Which is why I m using the Replace   method in my referenced code   You can likely just ignore that line

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With and ImageBox named  ImagePreview FormStrings MyImageNames contains a regular get set string cast method  which are linked to a scrollbox type list  The images have the same names as the linked names on the list  except for the  bmp endings  All bitmaps are dragged into the resources resx  Object rm   Properties Resources ResourceManager GetObject FormStrings MyImageNames   Bitmap myImage    Bitmap rm  ImagePreview Image   myImage

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Strangely enough  from poking in the designer I find what seems to be a much simpler approach   The image seems to be available from  Properties Resources   I m simply using an image as all I m interested in is pasting it into a control with an image on it    Net 4 0  VS2010

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JDS s answer worked best  C  example loading image    Include the image as Resource  Project tree- Resources  right click to add the desirable file ImageName png  Embedded Resource  Project tree- Resources- ImageName png  right click select properties   png file format   bmp  jpg should also be OK    pictureBox1 Image   ProjectName Properties Resources ImageName   Note the followings    The resource image file is  ImageName png   file extension should be omitted  ProjectName may perhaps be more adequately understood as  Assembly name   which is to be the respective text entry on the Project- Properties page     The example code line is run successfully using VisualStudio 2015 Community

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You need to load it from resource stream   Bitmap bmp   new Bitmap    System Reflection Assembly GetEntryAssembly        GetManifestResourceStream  MyProject Resources myimage png       If you want to know all resource names in your assembly  go with   string   all   System Reflection Assembly GetEntryAssembly      GetManifestResourceNames     foreach  string one in all        MessageBox Show one

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Or you could use this line when dealing with WPF or Silverlight  especially where you have the source string already in the XAML markup    ImageSource new ImageSourceConverter   ConvertFromString ImagePath     Where the ImagePath is something like    string ImagePath      ProjectName component Resource ImageName png

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