Resource DLLs

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Derek Lakin

I'm in the middle of extending my Collapsible Panel
(http://www.codeproject.com/cs/miscctrl/CollapsiblePanelBar.asp) control to
support XP Themes & Styles. So I need to paint it according to the bitmaps
that are stored in the current shellstyle.dll.

Using uxtheme.dll I can get the current theme and work out the path to the
current shellstyle.dll, but how can I extract the bitmaps from it? It's not
a .NET resource file (satellite dll) so I can't use ResourceManager or
ResourceReader. Any ideas?

Derek.
 
Yeah, I read that already. That's how I worked out how to find the current
shellstyle.dll.
I just thought there would be a way to read bitmaps out of a dll that didn't
involve making direct calls to Win32 :/

Derek.
 
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