How to create a D3DTexture from an embeded image resource.

I have added a cool little code snip that demonstrates a way of loading a image that was added to a project and declared "Embeded Resource" at design time, and returns a newly created D3D texture.
The code is written in vb.net and DX9.

Load Resource Texture

Private Function LoadResourceImage(ByVal ResourceImageName As String) As Direct3D.Texture

        Dim Mem As New IO.MemoryStream()

        Dim Img As Bitmap



        ' attempt to create bitmap from embeded resource

        Img = New Bitmap(Me.GetType, ResourceImageName)

        ' save image to memory stream

        Img.Save(Mem, Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat.Png)

        ' seek to start of stream

        Mem.Seek(0, IO.SeekOrigin.Begin)



        ' attempt to load/create image we saved to memory stream

        Dim Tex As Direct3D.Texture

        Tex = Direct3D.TextureLoader.FromStream(mobjGraphics.Device, Mem)



        ' done with varibles

        Mem.Close()

        Mem = Nothing

        Img.Dispose()

        Img = Nothing



        ' return reference to texture

        Return Tex

End Function