Stream to object?

[aewarnick]

I have been trying to get my manifested resouces from my app directly into an object variable but I cannot find a method to do it.

Bitmap.FromStream() seems to do this. But how can I do this?

Stream s= Assembly.GetCallingAssembly().GetManifestResourceStream(name);
object o= //Get Object from Stream Code Here.

 

[Divil]

Look in to serialization, which is converting an object to data which is persistable. The Bitmap class has a custom serializer/deserializer which can operate on a byte array of bitmap data rather than serialized data describing the class itself, thats how it works.

 

[aewarnick]

Oh, ok, so Images are an exception to serialization. I tried serialization but because it did not work on an Image I asked this question.

Are Images the only exception?

 

[Divil]

Anything that implements ISerializable can control its serialization very precisely. Its probably worth looking up the interface in the help and see if it gives you a list of classes that implement it.