[SOLVED]Embedding large amount of binary data as byte arrays causes TypeLoadException [modified]

[joelwms]

I am writing an app for Pocket PC that must concatenate several small wave files and play the result (text-to-speech). Loading the files from disk before concatenating them is too slow, so I decided to embed them by generating a class that includes each wave file as a byte array.

static byte[] aa_aa = {80, 100, 200, ...};

I assumed that this would make accessing them much quicker. It works fine if there are only a few, but when I have all 6 megs of them embedded in the class, when the app gets to the point of accessing one of these, I get a TypeLoadException. So I thought maybe it was because they were all declared static and it was trying to load all of them. So I rewrote it so that each byte array was in it's own class.

public class aa_aa
{
public byte[] bytes;
public void aa_aa()
{
bytes = {80, 100, 200, ...};
}
}

This way the byte arrays should only be instantiated when there is a new object of that class. Unfortunately, I am still getting the TypeLoadException whenever this class is used. Does anyone have any ideas of what I can do to get around this?

modified on Thursday, October 15, 2009 8:15 PM

[joelwms]

I solved it. The problem wasn't with anything I posted here. It was in the code to pull out the resource. Basically, I had a switch statement to get an object from a string.

switch (resource)
{
case "aa-aa":
return new aa_aa().bytes;
case "aa-ae":
return new aa_ae().bytes;
....
}

The problem was that there were too many case statements. I didn't know that was possible. I changed it to use if statements instead it works fine.