Passing binary data in xml: a C# example which puts and gets icon and bitmaps to and from a xml file.

Binary data needs to be base64 encoded to go into an xml file. .Net framework has made this a painless method wiht its System.Xml namespce classes. I use the XmlTextWriter to put in a bitmap and icon image into a xml file. I then use XmlTextReader to parse the xml file and dynamically set the icon a