Excuse me for my "spell-it-out-ism", but you're saying that I can compile an application and have RB "compile" it into another application? And if it doesn't recognize it, I "write it out" again as another binary to use later?
That's exactly what I thought when I first heard about it! But yes, you can "store" a file inside your compiled application, and you can write it to the hard drive as a binary file.
A common use for this feature is when you have a default, or blank, file, for example, a database. Instead of creating a new one from scratch, which could take a significant amount of code, you simply write the copy that's embedded in your app to the hard drive as a file.
When the file is compiled in your app, it is available as a string if RB doesn't know what it is. Since a string is actually binary data, it makes sense that the file can remain intact inside your app as a string. To write it to the hard drive, simply pass the string to a BinaryStream that is set up for writing to the hard drive in a file.
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