How to get a System.Drawing.Image object from image which build action is marked as Resource?

Question

I have a wpf app,and got a image useful for codebehind which\'s location in the project is something like \"projectName\\images\\pp.png\" and its build action is \"Resource\"(No

Answer 1

Windows Forms - Get an image embedded resource:

var assembly = System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly();
var stream= assembly.GetManifestResourceStream("YourAssemblyName.images.pp.png");
var image = Image.FromStream(stream);

Note:

• "YourAssemblyName.images.pp.png" is case sensitive
• Instead of YourAssemblyName put your assembly name, for example for my project, it is my project name and also my default namespace.
• If you are not sure what exactly pass to GetManifestResourceStram use the code below:

Find embedded resource names:

var assembly = System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly();
assembly.GetManifestResourceNames()
        .Where(x => x.EndsWith("pp.png")) //Comment this line to find all resource names
        .ToList()
        .ForEach(resource =>
        {
            MessageBox.Show(resource);
        });

Answer 2

WPF - Get an Image Resource and Convert to System.Drawing.Image

var bitmapImage = new BitmapImage(new Uri(@"pack://application:,,,/"
    + Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetName().Name
    + ";component/"
    + "images/pp.png", UriKind.Absolute));

var encoder = new PngBitmapEncoder();
encoder.Frames.Add(BitmapFrame.Create((BitmapImage)bitmapImage));
var stream = new MemoryStream();
encoder.Save(stream);
stream.Flush();
var image = new System.Drawing.Bitmap(stream);

Note:

• Use "/" instead of "\"
• Consider reading Pack URIs in WPF (important part: Resource File Pack URIs)
• Add reference to system.drawing.dll

Local Assembly Resource File

The pack URI for a resource file that is compiled into the local assembly uses the following authority and path: pack://application:,,,/ReferencedAssembly;component/Subfolder/ResourceFile.Ext