Comments on: The resource cannot be found.

By: mehdi

mehdi — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Hi,
I've got the exactly same problem, using the embeded web resources. Would you please provide me what was wrong exactly in your case?

Any help would be highly appreciated,

Cheers,
Mehdi

P.S.:
Here's my contact ifo: (mehdi_mousavi@hotmail.com)

By: Helen

Helen — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

In my case it turned out that I wasn't referencing the resource properly when I was trying to access the file in the GetWebResourceUrl method.

So I was doing this:

this.ImgSrc = Page.ClientScript.GetWebResourceUrl(this.GetType(), "Elephant.jpg");

When I should have been doing this:

this.ImgSrc = Page.ClientScript.GetWebResourceUrl(this.GetType(), "Examples.WebResource.Images.Elephant.jpg");

You can find out the exact names of your resources by iterating through the resources in your assembly and then you can cut and paste them into the GetWebResourceUrl() method:

string[] resources = this.GetType().Assembly.GetManifestResourceNames();
foreach (string resourceName in resources)
{
Debug.WriteLine(resourceName);
}

By: Jeroen

Jeroen — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Hi Helen,

I have tried your code to iterate through the assembly, but no resources seem to be available. How do I add a resource to an assembly?

By: Helen

Helen — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

You need to add the resource to your project and then set it’s Build Action property to Embedded Resource.

I’ve actually written out some step by step instructions about what you need to do on this page:
http://webdev.helephant.com/blog/asp.net/webresourceattribute