Opening Resources

[rbulph]

If you add a Word file as a Resource to a project, how do you then open that file from within your code? Not like this, at least:

Public Class Form1

    Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
        Dim p As New Word.Application
        p.Visible = True
        p.Documents.Add(My.Resources._2002_AGM_Minutes)
    End Sub
End Class

I cant figure it out. It was so easy in VB6 with an OLE container. Grateful if someone can tell me.

 

[snarfblam]

Not knowing anything at all about Office interop, if I had to guess I would say that one approach would be to extract the resource to a file on the disk and open it from there. If the Word.Application can accept a stream, it should also be possible to create a stream to read the resource and skip the intermediate step of using the hard drive. But thats all coming from someone who doesnt know anything at all about Office interop.

 

[rbulph]

Heres the answer, if youre interested http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/showpost.aspx?postid=790038&siteid=1