Jon, I consider you as a hero from now on..
Thanks for your help again, I'm really going to try this out and probably
run it in a background thread.. Is it like possible to run it in a
background thread and show a loading image until its done?
2011/9/16 Jonathan Pryor <j...@xamarin.com>
> On Sep 15, 2011, at 1:59 PM, Mittchel Van Vliet wrote:
> > Further; I'm definitely going to exceed the 1MB limit.. so how does the
> Resources option work? haha:P
>
> Add your file to the project, and set the Build action to "Embed as
> resource," and optionally set the Resource ID.
>
> At runtime, you can do:
>
> var destPath = Path.Combine (
>
> System.Environment.GetFolderPath(System.Environment.SpecialFolder.Personal),
> "items.db3");
> using (System.IO.Stream source =
> System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetManifestResourceStream("resource
> name"))
> using (var dest = System.IO.File.Create (destPath)) {
> source.CopyTo (dest);
> }
>
> Note, however, that if the resource will be sizable, it'll likely take a
> noticeable amount of time. Don't do this in the UI thread. :-)
>
> - Jon
>
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