A ResourceCollection is a collection of Resource objects, so once you've loaded
it, you can enumerate the resources in the collection. Resources may be of
different ResourceTypes, and Resource instances of type Version will actually
be a specialized VersionResource subclass. So to get to the strings in the
version string table, you'll do something like this:
ResourceCollection rc = new ResourceCollection();
rc.Find(pathToDll, ResourceType.Version);
rc.Load(pathToDll);
foreach (Resource res in rc)
{
if (res.ResourceType == ResourceType.Version)
{
foreach (VersionStringTable vst in (VersionResource)res)
{
if (vst.Locale == CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.LCID) // Or whatever
LCID you're looking for
{
foreach (KeyValuePair<string, string> versionString in vst)
{
// Key is the name of the resource; Value is the resource
string.
}
// Or instead of enumerating KVPs, lookup a resource by name.
}
}
}
}
The DTF Resources library is a very thin wrapper over the Win32 resource APIs.
I primarily developed it only in support of some other functionality in DTF, so
I didn't put a lot of effort into making it really easy to use or documenting
lots of examples. But, it should serve your purpose well enough.
-Jason-
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From: jnewton [mailto:jonathan.new...@ni.com]
Sent: Friday, March 18, 2011 6:31 AM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] Using DTF to Retrieve String Entries in Resource DLL
I'm trying to use the Resource classes (i.e. Resource, ResourceCollection...)
in the Microsoft.Deployment.Resources assembly that DTF ships to retrieve
string entries from the RT_STRING table resource. I using the code:
ResourceCollection rc = new ResourceCollection(); rc.Find(pathToDll);
rc.Load(pathToDll)
This loads up all the correct information, but I'm not sure at this point how
to get the string entries. I see there is a resource entry with type String
which contains all the data I need. However, I note sure how to drill down to
the VersionStringTable object if there is one.
Anybody got suggestions on how to do this?
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