EXE as resource

[murrayf1]

Hi Currently i have an application that calls another application in our program files folder, is it possible to imbed this as a resource in the main exe

I have got the exe file in as a resource but im not sure how i can run it any help please?

 

[jmcilhinney]

An executable has to be run from disc, so if you embed it as a resource you'd still have to extract it and save it to disc as a file so you could run it. You may as well just include it as a content file and distribute it with your main app.

 

[murrayf1]

Ok how how i extract it and save it to a location on a disk

 

[jmcilhinney]

Why do you want to make it a resource, really? That's a very unusual thing to do. I've never seen it done before and I think it's a bad idea. If you really must do it then just add it as a file resource on the Resources tab of the Project properties. Then when you retrieve the resource via My.Resources you get a Byte array. You can create a FileStream and Write the Byte array to it to save it to disc.