Re: Embedding a resource at runtime
Dave,
It's one thing to process resources in an assembly that you actually
don't load in the CLR, but to do it in an assembly already loaded in the
CLR, that's just not feasible.
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"Dave Brown" <no_spam@_nospam.com> wrote in message
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Do you want to do this to an assembly that is loaded in the runtime? If
that is the case, then this is not possible. Changing the assembly at
runtime is a bad, bad idea. If you need to manage resources (and I use
this term not in the .NET space, but as a general term) in a dynamic
manner, then you should have some sort of storage solution to do that.
Hope this helps.
Thanks for the feedback. In my particular case however, adding and
updating resources in the assembly (exe) itself would have been the
simplest way to go for my users. I wanted to avoid dealing with extraneous
file(s) that is and just ship one ".exe". Perhaps a religious issue but
the specialized nature of my application actually lends itself to this
technique (it involves the processing of resources). Since it's not doable
however I'll have to package them up another way. In any case, thanks
again (appreciated).
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