External Resources in DLL

[melchiorus]

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!

[Edneeis]

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

[melchiorus]

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?

[jmcilhinney]

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