I have a .dll with a lot of ResourceDictionaries.
The build action of all these ResourceDictionaries is set to "Page".
Inside the Dll, I want to find all these ResourceDictionaries and iterate over them.
If I set the build action to "EmbeddedResource", I can use Reflection:
var embeddedResources = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetManifestResourceNames().ToList();
But GetManifestResourceNames() does not work for resources with build action "Page".
How do I find or iterate over all resources that have the build action "page"?
The solution doesn't have to be Reflection. Any other way is very welcome.
Thank you!
Solution:
Ladies and Gentleman! I have to announce, that the man of the week and the winner of this bounty, is Mr. Jon Wu. Jon Wu gave the right hint and through searching, I found this solution:
Enumerating .NET assembly resources at runtime
The working code, slightly changed looks like this:
public static string[] GetResourceNames()
{
var asm = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly();
string resName = asm.GetName().Name + ".g.resources";
using (var stream = asm.GetManifestResourceStream(resName))
using (var reader = new System.Resources.ResourceReader(stream))
{
return reader.Cast<DictionaryEntry>().Select(entry => (string)entry.Key).ToArray();
}
}
If you call this method, you get all the resource strings with a ".baml" at the end and you can iterate over them.
Thank you Jon Wu for the right hint.