Using resources in C# project

I was looking around and saw the post for using resource (how-to-create-and-use-resources-in-net) . I learned how to put a file into the resources for the project and programmatically retrieve it. But, I'm not seeing the idea of having resources, maybe? I have a tab on a form where I have a webbrowser control, but I just want to show a help document. I put the html file as a resource, but when I print out after looking up the resource, it gives me all the file's text (html tags) instead of just the name of the file, such that I could do something like

helpBrowser.Url = new Uri("file//:"+Properties.Resources.help);

I might need a different approach. Im using the control not to actually browse but just display a page, which isnt t开发者_C百科he intended use exactly.

Thanks, guys. StackOverflow is great!

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WebBrowser is an unmanaged component under the hood, it doesn't know anything about .NET resources. There's a protocol for it to read unmanaged resources but you don't want to go there. Simply use the DocumentText property:

    private void HelpButton_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) {
        webBrowser1.DocumentText = Properties.Resources.HelpPage;
    }

Beware the usual trouble with displaying off-line HTML, it won't know where to find any images you embedded in the html. If that's a deal breaker then you are better off having the files on disk. Which is the all-around better solution for large files anyway.

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You can't directly access the resources as a file with managed resources. You will atually have to insert the content into the web browser control manually.

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Resources are embedded within your EXE or DLL and can't be access directly by a browser. You need to retrieve the resource, save it to a temporary file, and then direct the browser to that temporary file.