Image List

[vbgladiator]

Hey,

I have a class where I inherit from the DataGrid.
I want to create this as this will be used in few places in my app and I don't feel like copying and pasting a lot of code in many places. (and maintaining it...).
I am creating an Imagelist control that will hold hte icons for a context menu.
Now, I don't want to distribute the icons so I want to embed them into my app.

How can I go about it?
How do I use a resource file in vb.net?

Thanks a lot,

[jmcilhinney]

If you create an ImageList in the designer, i.e. add it to a form, then whatever images you add to it there will be embedded in your exe. You could then assign the ImageList to a global variable and access it from anywhere in the app. The alternative would be to add the image files to your project and set their Build Action property to Embedded Resource. You could then create Image objects at run time from the resources and add them to an ImageList.