why Null value returns & crashes GetManifestResourceStream

[xchezhd]

Hello, Win 7 - 64-bit Windows Form App Did a clean and rebuild on the sln but the program crashes on the StreamReader line. The file is definitely there and in the correct place. Anything wrong with this call?

public static class BOBroker
{
public static string GetClassDefsXml()
{

    StreamReader classDefStream = new StreamReader(
        typeof(BOBroker).Assembly.GetManifestResourceStream("WCM.BO.ClassDefs.xml"));

    // Read the file to a string and close reader
    string \_classDefsXML = classDefStream.ReadToEnd();
    classDefStream.Close();

    return \_classDefsXML;
}

Thanks, DKH

[Richard Andrew x64]

what is the error?

The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.

[Luc Pattyn]

Furthermore, I don't understand why people tend to code several lines to read all of a text file, when there is a single-line solution in

string allTheFilesText=File.ReadAllText(path);

:doh:

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[Richard Andrew x64]

Luc Pattyn wrote:

I don't understand why people tend to code several lines to read all of a text file

With respect, Luc, you once admonished a poster that he was supposed use a loop to read all of a file because "that's what streams are for."

The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.

[Luc Pattyn]

I'm all in favor of streaming data, especially when the amount of data can be large and there really is no need to have it all in memory at once; streaming then means having an explicit loop of input-process-output, dealing with a fraction of the data at a time. When the amount of data is known to be really small, or there is a need to have it all at once, then one can rightfully decide not to stream, and to read or write all in one go; but then I insist on taking the easiest way to do that, which is by using a single File method. Using a stream class to not stream the data just does not make any sense. StreamReader.ReadToEnd() gets abused over and over, almost as much as String.ToString(). :)

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[BobJanova]

It's a resource, not a file, in this case.

[Luc Pattyn]

My mistake, sorry. :-O

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[JimmeP]

Have you added the file to the project as an embedded resource? Best regards