Revisited: How to create a D3DTexture from an embeded image resource.

I have continued to play around with loading embeded resource data files and have come up with a alternative way to create a D3DTexture from an embeded resource image. This new method seems more apropreate. (To me at least :p )

If you are wondering why I am loading embeded resource images rather than simply loading and creating a D3D texture from a file, it is because external files can be lost and can result in you app not being able to run. Not that I will be doing this for every app I write!

    Protected Friend Function LoadResource(ByVal ResourceName As String) As IO.MemoryStream

        Dim ResourceStream As IO.Stream

        ResourceStream = Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly.GetManifestResourceStream(ResourceName)

        If ResourceStream Is Nothing Then Return Nothing



        Dim byts(CInt(ResourceStream.Length - 1)) As Byte

        Dim Len As Integer = ResourceStream.Read(byts, 0, CInt(ResourceStream.Length))



        Dim MemStream As New IO.MemoryStream(byts, 0, Len)

        Return MemStream

    End Function




    Protected Friend Function LoadResourceImage(ByVal ResourceImageName As String) As Direct3D.Texture

        Dim Mem As IO.MemoryStream

        Mem = LoadResource(ResourceImageName)

       

        ' 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

      

        ' return reference to texture

        Return Tex

    End Function