How to hide images from 'Resources' folder?

Question

How do I create a file to put the images in the 'Resources' folder? I don’t want the people who use my program to have access to them. The file can be any extension.

Answer 1

You want to hide resources from the project? You can embed/embed them in Assembly.

Just go the file properties inside Visual Studio, and where it says Build Action, select Embedded Resource.

Then you can read the file as follows (if it is a text file):

var assembly = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly();
var resourceName = assembly.GetName().Name + ".ficheiro.txt";

using (Stream stream = assembly.GetManifestResourceStream(resourceName))
using (StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(stream))
{
    string result = reader.ReadToEnd();
}