How to copy files from resources to another directory

Hey,

I am trying to copy files stored as resources in my wpf project into a new directory.

This is to create a template set of folders with the default files populating it in the directory of the users choice. I have managed to do this with some of the easier file types like icons and plain text but am struggling with finding a way to copy others.

Is there a best way to make a copy of them other than stream reader and writer? this seemes to be handing back empty files for some files?

System.Drawing.Icon icon = Properties.Resources.icons;
              Stream IconStream = System.IO.File.OpenWrite(path+"\\Icons\\test.ico");
              icon.Save(IconStream);

This works fine for an icon but the below code does not work for one of my help files; it creates it but when i look at the file it seems to be empty and wont open

  writer = new StreamWriter(path + "\\Help\\en\\test.chm");
writer.Write(Properties.Resources.test);

(resources.test being a .chm file)

thanks!

Tags: C#, WPF, File