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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 NUnit.Framework;
using System.IO;
using System.Reflection;
using System.Web;
using Vestris.ResourceLib;

namespace Vestris.ResourceLibUnitTests
{
    [TestFixture]
    public class ResourceInfoTests
    {
        [Test]
        public void TestLoad()
        {
            Uri uri = new Uri(Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().CodeBase);
            string uriPath = Path.GetDirectoryName(HttpUtility.UrlDecode(uri.AbsolutePath));

            string[] files = 
            {
                Path.Combine(Environment.SystemDirectory, "regedt32.exe"),
                Path.Combine(Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("WINDIR"), "explorer.exe"),
                Path.Combine(uriPath, "Binaries\\gutils.dll"),
                Path.Combine(uriPath, "Binaries\\6to4svc.dll"),
                Path.Combine(uriPath, "Binaries\\custom.exe"),
            };

            foreach (string filename in files)
            {
                Console.WriteLine(filename);
                Assert.IsTrue(File.Exists(filename));
                using (ResourceInfo vi = new ResourceInfo())
                {
                    vi.Load(filename);
                    DumpResource.Dump(vi);
                }
            }
        }

        //[Test]
        //public void FindSmallestBinaryWithResources()
        //{
        //    FindSmallestBinaryWithResources(
        //        Environment.SystemDirectory,
        //        "*.exe", 
        //        Kernel32.ResourceTypes.RT_MENU);
        //}

        private void FindSmallestBinaryWithResources(
            string path, string ext, Kernel32.ResourceTypes rt)
        {
            long smallest = 0;
            string[] files = Directory.GetFiles(path, ext);
            foreach (string filename in files)
            {
                try
                {
                    using (ResourceInfo ri = new ResourceInfo())
                    {
                        ri.Load(filename);

                        if (!ri.Resources.ContainsKey(new ResourceId(rt)))
                            continue;

                        FileInfo fi = new FileInfo(filename);
                        //if (fi.Length < smallest || smallest == 0)
                        //{
                            Console.WriteLine("{0} {1}", filename, new FileInfo(filename).Length);
                            smallest = fi.Length;
                        // }
                        break;
                    }
                }
                catch
                {
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

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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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