Get a TextReader from a Stream?

Question

I\'m trying to read an embedded text file with System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetManifestResourceStream(resource); but it gives me a Stream

Answer 1

You need to get a StreamReader from it (TextReader is an abstract base class of StreamReader and StringReader). Something like:

var stream = System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().
    GetManifestResourceStream(resource);
var reader = new StreamReader(stream);
var text = reader.ReadToEnd();