[RESOLVED] Populate Listview with files in my.resources

[Jonny1409]

Hello, I wonder if you can help me please.

I have a very simple program which simply populates a listbox with a list of files stored in a directory.

        Try
            lvScripts.View = View.Details
            lvScripts.Items.Clear()
            lvScripts.Columns.Clear()

            lvScripts.Columns.Add("Filename", 250, HorizontalAlignment.Left)

            Dim dFolder As DirectoryInfo = New DirectoryInfo(ScriptDirectory)
            Dim fFileArray() As FileInfo = dFolder.GetFiles
            Dim fFile As FileInfo
            Dim lCurrent As ListViewItem

            For Each fFile In fFileArray
                lCurrent = lvScripts.Items.Add(fFile.Name)
            Next
        Catch ex As Exception
            MessageBox.Show(ex.Message)
        End Try

However, I'd like to embed these files into the application itself and open them from there rather than from looking at the directory.

To this end I've added each of the files as a resource but I don't know how to populate the list view with a list of the text files in the my.resources rather than a list of the text files in the directory.

[mf12]

You can try calling ResourceManager.GetResourceSet() and iterating through the ResourceSet it returns.

[.paul.]

mf12's idea was correct. here's how:

Dim ResourceSet As Resources.ResourceSet = My.Resources.ResourceManager.GetResourceSet(Globalization.CultureInfo.CurrentCulture, True, True)
        ListView1.Items.AddRange(ResourceSet.Cast(Of DictionaryEntry) _
                                                  .Select(Function(d) New ListViewItem(d.Key.ToString)).ToArray)