How to Read an embedded resource as array of bytes without writing it to disk?
You are actually already reading the stream to a byte array, why not just stop there? public static byte[] ExtractResource(String filename) { System.Reflection.Assembly a = System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly(); using (Stream resFilestream = a.GetManifestResourceStream(filename)) { if (resFilestream == null) return null; byte[] ba = new byte[resFilestream.Length]; resFilestream.Read(ba, 0, ba.Length); return ba; } } edit: See comments for a … Read more