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File Resource Management Library (.NET)

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16 Sep 2009CPOL14 min read 134K   2.6K   113  
A .NET implementation of a file resource management, with complete support for VS_VERSIONINFO version resources.
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;

namespace Vestris.ResourceLib
{
    /// <summary>
    /// An accelerator, RT_ACCELERATOR resource.
    /// An accelerator provides the user with access to an application's command set.
    /// </summary>
    public class AcceleratorResource : Resource
    {
        private List<Accelerator> _accelerators = new List<Accelerator>();

        /// <summary>
        /// Accelerator keys.
        /// </summary>
        public List<Accelerator> Accelerators
        {
            get
            {
                return _accelerators;
            }
            set
            {
                _accelerators = value;
            }
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// A new accelerator resource.
        /// </summary>
        public AcceleratorResource()
            : base(IntPtr.Zero,
                IntPtr.Zero,
                new ResourceId(Kernel32.ResourceTypes.RT_ACCELERATOR),
                null,
                ResourceUtil.NEUTRALLANGID,
                0)
        {

        }


        /// <summary>
        /// An existing accelerator resource.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="hModule">Module handle.</param>
        /// <param name="hResource">Resource ID.</param>
        /// <param name="type">Resource type.</param>
        /// <param name="name">Resource name.</param>
        /// <param name="language">Language ID.</param>
        /// <param name="size">Resource size.</param>
        public AcceleratorResource(IntPtr hModule, IntPtr hResource, ResourceId type, ResourceId name, UInt16 language, int size)
            : base(hModule, hResource, type, name, language, size)
        {

        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Read the accelerators table.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="hModule">Handle to a module.</param>
        /// <param name="lpRes">Pointer to the beginning of the accelerator table.</param>
        /// <returns>Address of the end of the accelerator table.</returns>
        internal override IntPtr Read(IntPtr hModule, IntPtr lpRes)
        {
            int count = _size / Marshal.SizeOf(typeof(User32.ACCEL));
            for (int i = 0; i < count; i++)
            {
                Accelerator accelerator = new Accelerator();
                lpRes = accelerator.Read(lpRes);
                _accelerators.Add(accelerator);
            }
            return lpRes;
        }

        internal override void Write(System.IO.BinaryWriter w)
        {
            foreach (Accelerator accelerator in _accelerators)
            {
                accelerator.Write(w);
            }            
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// String representation of the accelerators resource.
        /// </summary>
        /// <returns></returns>
        public override string ToString()
        {
            StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
            sb.AppendLine(string.Format("{0} ACCELERATORS", Name));
            sb.AppendLine("BEGIN");
            foreach(Accelerator accelerator in _accelerators)
            {
                sb.AppendLine(string.Format(" {0}", accelerator));
            }
            sb.AppendLine("END");
            return sb.ToString();
        }
    }
}

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Written By
dB.
Team Leader Application Security Inc., www.appsecinc.com
United States United States
Daniel Doubrovkine has been in software engineering for twelve years and is currently development manager at Application Security Inc. in New York City. He has been involved in many software ventures, including Xo3 and Vestris Inc, was a development lead at Microsoft Corp. in Redmond, and director of Engineering at Visible Path Corp. in New York City. Daniel also builds and runs a foodie website, http://www.foodcandy.com.

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