External Resources in DLL

Hello,

I am new to these forums and somewhat new to Visual Basic .NET. I am using Visual Studio .NET 2005. Here's basically what I want to do:

I have a lot of graphic images for my application, including icons and png files. I want to store these files in an external DLL so my application can load faster. As it is, I just have these resource files in the same project as the main EXE file.

How do I put these images into an external DLL project and then reference them in my main application?

Thanks in advance for the help!

You can do that but it wont make your program load any faster, in fact there is a slight chance it would load slower.

Well, atleast it will provide a smaller excutable and easier changes in the future if I want to switch out graphics or something. Could you elaborate as how to do it?

What you're talking about are called "satellite assemblies", which by definition contain only resources.

Creating Satellite Assemblies
How to: Access Resources in Satellite DLLs