Hidden resource files?

  • Thread starter Thread starter Nickneem
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Nickneem

The following is driving me mad:

VS2005 Compact framework, project upgraded from 2003.

I get a cast exeception error trying to populate an imagelist (code is
by design)
Me.imgListDiv.Images.Clear()

Me.imgListDiv.Images.Add(CType(resources.GetObject("resource"),
System.Drawing.Icon))

Me.imgListDiv.Images.Add(CType(resources.GetObject("resource1"),
System.Drawing.Icon))

When I look in the forms resources (mainform.resx) - icons the icons
are all there nicely organized, recource, resource1, etc..
There are NO 'images' in the MainForm.resx

The project builds fine but when I debug the code hangs with a:

System.InvalidCastException was unhandled
Message="InvalidCastException"
StackTrace:
bij DigiWaiterPDA.MainForm.InitializeComponent()
bij DigiWaiterPDA.MainForm..ctor()
bij System.Reflection.RuntimeConstructorInfo.InternalInvoke()
bij System.Reflection.RuntimeConstructorInfo.Invoke()
bij System.Reflection.ConstructorInfo.Invoke()
bij System.Activator.CreateInstance()
at MyForms.Create__Instance__()
at MyForms.get_MainForm()
bij DigiWaiterPDA.MainForm.Main()

On the line:
Me.imgListDiv.Images.Add(CType(resources.GetObject("resource"),
System.Drawing.Icon))

When I try to retrieve the resource in the immediate window:
? resources.GetObject("resource")
{System.Drawing.Bitmap}
System.Drawing.Bitmap: {System.Drawing.Bitmap}
It shows me 'resource' (and resource1) are bitmaps while they're
supposed to be icons.

If I bind the resourcefile to an existing picturebox and save it on
the PDA (emulator) I can tell a .bmp which I used earlier in the
project is shown so I thought I'd try and delete all those images with
a 'build action' embedded resource' but all with no success though ;((

The 'Localizable' property of the form is false (at the moment,
because I really want the form to be localizable thus allowing multi-
langual).
Are there resource files outside the default forms and project
resource files?

Any help is much appreciated!!!

Kind regards,

Mike
 
I hate it when after searching hours and hours you find this one post
with the exact same problem just to see the question's never answered.

I didn't really find out where those unwanted, strange, hidden
resources came from.
I installed SharpDevelop to see if I could find out more with the
Resouce toolkit but that didn't change anything.
Finally I tried changing the root namespace and that seemed to do the
trick.

resources.GetObject("resource") 1, 2, 3, etc pointed to the right icon
file and not to the ghost bitmaps!

Mike
 
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