integrate images inside a .dll

December 23rd, 2011, 11:42 AM

Hello,

I have scripts that I would like to pass to friends and relatives but protected as .dll

Those strategies include custom buttons with images I created for the purpose.
Those images are now stored on a folder within C:\ and I call them within the script to use for the buttons.

I'd like to know if there is a way to include the images natively inside my .dll ? I've tried a few things but can't make it work.
The goal is that the script can be imported just like a regular indicator and install itself the images on a misc. folder.

If that's not possible, I'll have to use and provide an installer aside. I'd prefer to avoid that.

Merry christmas

December 23rd, 2011, 07:26 PM

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December 23rd, 2011, 07:27 PM

You can call them from a website easily enough, not sure about actually encoding them and embedding them inside a DLL.

How to embed resources in ASP.NET 2.0 assemblies

You might try googling for MIME or base 64 encode and c# .net and see if that gets you anywhere, as I imagine you would need to basically hard code the encoded string for the image, then decode it and display it.

Mike

December 26th, 2011, 09:48 AM

Thanks Mike.

I had thought about reading them online but I will try to code their conditional download on startup and see if that can be acceptable.

July 30th, 2014, 03:39 AM

Hi Mike,

thank you for the perfect hint regarding base64!
This is the code which works:

Code

        using System.IO;
        public Bitmap base64ToImage( string base64String )
        {
            // Decode the string and create a memory stream on the decoded string data.
            MemoryStream stream = new MemoryStream(Convert.FromBase64String(base64String));

            // Create a new bitmap from the stream.
            return new Bitmap(stream);
        }

Here you can convert any picture to a base64 c# string:
Base64 Image Encoder

Best Regars!

December 27th, 2016, 06:25 PM

Goodnight.
Could someone write an example code please?
I have converted the image to Base64 and it gives me a very long code that I do not know what to do with it.
I would like to assemble the dll with an image that I have in my computer so that when another person uses it on another pc it looks like the image.
Regards and many thanks to all.

January 24th, 2017, 04:08 PM

Yes, it is a very long code because each byte of the image is converted to a character. So a 1 KB image will produce a string of around 1'300 bytes.

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