David,

Thanks for the reply. I have it working but now I'm having another related issue. The user control I built is compiled in a dll. In another project I am using this library and creating a user control based on that original control. In design mode everthing works fine. The .jpg's show fine, etc. I have the problem when I drop the new user control on a form. I get the error "Object reference not set to an instance of an object". The code is the same as you posted: Bitmap bmp = new Bitmap(this.GetType(),"InspectionForm.gif");

If I take the original control and drop it on a form it works fine. I guess inheriting is causing the issue.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Dan


>I have been using code like this in an event handler on the form to get to those embedded resources:
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>Bitmap bmp = new Bitmap(this.GetType(),"InspectionForm.gif");
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>P.S. This article from Chris Sells pretty well tells you everything you need to know about resources on winforms: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnforms/html/winforms02202003.asp
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>>I've add some .jpg's to my project as an "embedded resource". I'm running into some problems using those.
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>>I'm not sure what to type to use for the "class to extract the resouce" in my Bitmap contructor.
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>>Any help would be appreciated.
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>>Thanks,
>>Dan