>I want to convert an embedded resourse stream to a string. The following code does what I want it to:
>

>byte[] ba;
>using (System.IO.Stream s = System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetManifestResourceStream(sResouce))
>{
>  ba = new byte[s.Length];
>  s.Read(ba, 0, ba.Length);
>}
>
>string myString = System.Text.ASCIIEncoding.ASCII.GetString(ba);
>

>
>Is there a better way to do this? It just seems like a lot of work to first convert the Stream to a byte array and then convert it to a string.

This is what I use to do a VFP FileToStr() equivalent:

    ' FileToStr() VFP equivalent
    ' expC1 File name
    Public Shared Function FileToStr(ByVal tcFileName As String) As String
        Dim loFile As IO.StreamReader
        Dim lcString As String
        Try
            loFile = New IO.StreamReader(tcFileName, System.Text.Encoding.Default)
            lcString = loFile.ReadToEnd()
            loFile.Close()
        Catch loError As Exception
            Framework.App.ErrorSetup(loError)
            lcString = ""
        End Try
        Return lcString
    End Function

Once the stream reader object is created, I have to do ReadToEnd() to get the content.