How Microsoft does it?
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Dear All, I am creating a Image Library and want to know what can the best and standard procedure to do this. Concept is to have all the images needed by all projects (dlls and exes) in the product at a central place (in a single DLL) making it easy to distribute and maintain. There are 2 ways of doing this. 1) Creating a new project, add all the images to it using "Add Existing Item" and set Build Action=Embeded Resource for each image. OR 2) Creating a new project>Add new Item>Resources File and then adding all the images to it and setting Build Action=Embeded Resource for each image. Doing this will provide me a strongly typed DLL which will provide a property like access to all images. But .resx are mainly for localization. And here I am not localizing images. My question is what is the standard way of doing this? Do you guys know pros or cons of any of these methods? Is anybody there knowing how Microsoft do it??? (When they need to create an image library) Any links or articles for this? Most important is, will the second (2) way will have any negative effect on start up time? Regards, ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jayvardhan Patil.