Visual Basic.Net

Question

While integrating media player to play the videos in VB.NET we place video files in folder and the videos can directly access accidently by the end user so it should not view to the end user if he tries to find it in drive. so how to make the video files as library(DLL) and use its reference to play ?

Because one of the Indian Author has published video courses on C,C++,VB.NET,C#,JAVA …etc and I have purchased all the courses and installed my computer .For example when I install VB.NET it will create a folder and within this single folder it creates Sixty folders and each folder has its unique name as Chapter1, Chapter2, Chapter3,……. Chapter60 and within each folder there is single .dll file and the size of the .dll is 35MB, 48MB, 29MB, 42MB ………etc. Apart from these folders it will create another files/folders in Program Files folder as we see in normal software which is not a part of discussion. If the end user try to search the video clips it will find only .dll files as I said .I do not understand how it is done by the Author ? Please help me.
Thanks Rajesh Undre

Rajesh Undre · Answer

Hi Manoj Bhoir I have already tried it as per the msdn it works fine but the same is applied and tried to create the .dll of .AVI it has created the .dll but when i tried to get the .avi from .dll it is not playing by Windows Media Player.

Manoj Bhoir · Answer

Hi The .NET Framework can encapsulate files as part of a compiled assembly. These files are known as embedded resources. These resources are completely separate from the .resources and .resx files that are associated with the assembly. You can access these resources at run time through the Assembly class of the System.Reflection namespace. A major advantage of embedding resources to the Manifest is that because the files are part of your compiled assembly the user cannot accidentally delete or misplace files that are critical to your application which in some cases may prevent the execution of your program. One limitation of this approach is that you cannot save any changes to this file to the assembly without recompiling the program. Because of this only include files that will not change during the lifetime of your application as an embedded resource. For more details about How to add Embedded Resources in DLL files check this link : How to embed and access resources This exaple is in C# but you will get clear idea. If you really want to extract video files embedded in dll files as you said above. Check this link with the help of this you can extract that files from resources. I have not tested by try yourself. ResourcesExtract v1.18 - Extract resource files (bitmaps icons html files and more) from dll files I hope this will help you.