Unraveling the confusion about Embedded Resources

Question

EDIT: Read answer number 1 from Tim Schmelter and then use this question for examples of how to embed resources and access them at runtime.

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Answer 1

Just an update for anyone who wants to use this code. The code actually writes one additional byte to the file due to zero-based declaration of the byte array.

To get an exact copy of the original file change the code to:

Using s As Stream = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetManifestResourceStream(WindowsApplication1.test.exe)
    Dim bytes(s.Length-1) As Byte
    s.Read(bytes, 0, bytes.Length)
    File.WriteAllBytes(“C:\test.exe”, bytes)
End Using