Continuing work on a game for The Bitters, I'm going to post a couple of pretty elementary but handy GDI+ snippets I've used in C#.

Load and Manipulate an Image from a Resource in C#

First, add the image to your project, and in the properties for the image, change "Build Action" to "Embedded Resource". Then:

using System.Reflection;
using System.IO;
using System.Drawing;


Class MockLoad : Form
{
    MockLoad()
    {
        Assembly a = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly();
        //Set Icon
        Stream imgStream = a.GetManifestResourceStream("ProjectName.logo.ico");
	Icon = new Icon(imgStream);
        //Get image for background
        Stream backgroundStream = a.GetManifestResourceStream("ProjectName.Image.jpg");
        Image bgImage = Bitmap.FromStream(backgroundStream);
        BackgroundImage = bgImage;
        //Get thumbnail of image
        //Have to set a callback function for GetThumbnailImageAbort
        System.Drawing.Image.GetThumbnailImageAbort dummyCallback = 
            new System.Drawing.Image.GetThumbnailImageAbort(ImageCallback);
        Image tNail = bgImage.GetThumbnailImage(Width,Height,dummyCallback,IntPtr.Zero);
    }
    private bool ImageCallback()
    {
        //Gotta do this, although to my knowledge it's useless.
        return false;
    }
}

So there you have it. Load images embedded into the assembly, set form Icon, set form background, and get thumbnails. Hope this helps someone.
Tags: Graphics