Loading Images from resources to an array?

Question

I have 52 card images(.jpg) stored in Images folder shown in solution explorer. I have build action set to Resources.

Now I want to load each image from the folder to an array of Image.

How do I do that?

Answer 1

Try this How to load static images from the projects resources

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Karthikeya

Answer 2

Hi, you can do it something like:

Image[] cards = System.IO.Directory.GetFiles("imagesPath").Select(f => Image.FromFile(f)).ToArray();

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Mitja

Answer 3

Thanks for reply but I don't need a way to store pictures in an array but what I need is a way/method to extract resources form Images folder.

Your help would be highly appreciated....

Answer 4

Hi,

extract where?

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Mitja

Answer 5

why dont you load them into a imagelist?

Answer 6

from resources to array..

you specified ImagePath I want to know what is imagePath for Images folder that is built as Resources. I mean to say if I had stored card images in external folder than I could have been able to use simple path to directory.But my images are in resources so how can I extract them from resources to my array

your help would be appreciated

Answer 7

Hi Bipin,

  Do you think the replies posted by Karthik9 is suitable for your requirement? He recommend the way that is using GetManifestResourceStream to get stream from image resource ,and convert this Stream into byte array if needed.

  Please feel free to mark his reply as answer if his reply really meet your requirement.

  Sincerely,

  Jason Wang

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Jason Wang [MSFT]
MSDN Community Support | Feedback to us

Answer 8

I know what you mean, its easy to get a single image from Resources, but not so easy to get a bunch of them, like an array. 

Thats why I did an example code, which gets you all the images from Resources. And I use List<T>, where T is a Bitmap class, instead of an Array (its betters, since for array you have to explicitly define the length of it (even if you can Resize it), when List<t> is resizing "automatically").

Here is how you can get the images into a List<T>:

  System.Resources.ResourceManager res = Properties.Resources.ResourceManager;
  System.Resources.ResourceSet resSet = res.GetResourceSet(System.Globalization.CultureInfo.CurrentUICulture, true, true);
  System.Collections.IDictionaryEnumerator en = resSet.GetEnumerator();
  List<Bitmap> images = new List<Bitmap>();
  // Goes through the enumerator, printing out the key and value pairs.
  while (en.MoveNext())
  {
    images.Add(en.Value as Bitmap);
    //en.Key which is the name of the resource, en.Value is the resource
  }

Hope it helps, 

bye

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Mitja

Answer 9

Mitza Bonca I am thankful for your reply but I still didn't get images into List<T>. I don't think there is any link to Images folder in resources in your code or am I missing anything?

Kindly reply please. Your help would be appreciated!