searching and listing WPF resource dictionaries in a folder

Question

I\'m making a WPF application that is going to have multiple skins branded in by our build system. Ideally we would like the application to list off the skins available as

Answer 1

here is a solution i found @ microsoft

WPF wraps the ResourceDictionary in the "Assembly.g.resources", we can get the resource name "Assembly.g.resources" by GetManifestResourceNames(). After that we can use ResourceReader class to read the Resource from the ResourceStream.

 foreach (string str in Application.ResourceAssembly.GetManifestResourceNames()){
txt.Text += str + "\n";
 {
  Stream st = Application.ResourceAssembly.GetManifestResourceStream(str);
  using (ResourceReader resourceReader = new ResourceReader(st))
  {
   foreach (DictionaryEntry resourceEntry in resourceReader)
   {
    txt.Text +="\t: "+ resourceEntry.Key + "\n";
   }
  }
 }
}

second answer

You can use Assembly.Load() to load the external assembly and read the resource dictionaries from it.

Assembly assembly = Assembly.Load("Assembly Name String"); 
foreach (string str in assembly.GetManifestResourceNames())
{
 {
  Stream st = assembly.GetManifestResourceStream(str);
  using (ResourceReader resourceReader = new ResourceReader(st))
  {
   foreach (DictionaryEntry resourceEntry in resourceReader)
   {
    .....
   }
  }
 }
}