>>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.


Thanks Michel. That was just what I needed. Translated into C# this is what my code looks like.

string myString = "";
using (System.IO.Stream s = System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetManifestResourceStream(sResouce))
{
  using (System.IO.StreamReader sr = new System.IO.StreamReader(s))
  {
    myString = sr.ReadToEnd();
  }
}
MessageBox.Show(myString);

A lot cleaner than what it looked like before.
Again thank you very much.

Sincerely,
Einar