how to get file from resources as a stream? (.net)

I've got few files in resources (xsd files) that i use for validating received xml messages. The resource file i use is named AppResources.resx and it contains a file called clientModels.xsd. When i try to use the file like this: AppResources.clientModels, i get a string with the file's content. i would like to get a stream instead. i do not wish to use assembly.GetManifestResourceStream as i had bad experiences with it (using these streams to archive files with SharpZipLib didn't work for some reason). is there any other way to do it? i've heard about ResourceManager - is it anything that could help me?

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• Could you feed the string you get into a System.IO.StringReader, perhaps? That may do what you want. You may also want to check out MemoryStream.

• Hello

  I would normallly use the way you do not want to use.

  however here is a link to a smaple which uses the resourse manager. (I have not used this)

  Sample of resourse manager

  except use

  resourceManager.GetStream()

  HTH bones

  agnieszka : the link doesn't work

• here is the code from the link

  //Namespace reference
  using System;
  using System.Resources;
  
  
  #region ReadResourceFile
  /// <summary>
  /// method for reading a value from a resource file
  /// (.resx file)
  /// </summary>
  /// <param name="file">file to read from</param>
  /// <param name="key">key to get the value for</param>
  /// <returns>a string value</returns>
  public string ReadResourceValue(string file, string key)
  {
      //value for our return value
      string resourceValue = string.Empty;
      try
      {
          // specify your resource file name 
          string resourceFile = file;
          // get the path of your file
          string filePath = System.AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory.ToString();
          // create a resource manager for reading from
          //the resx file
          ResourceManager resourceManager = ResourceManager.CreateFileBasedResourceManager(resourceFile, filePath, null);
          // retrieve the value of the specified key
          resourceValue = resourceManager.GetString(key);
      }
      catch (Exception ex)
      {
          Console.WriteLine(ex.Message);
          resourceValue = string.Empty;
      }
      return resourceValue;
  }
  #endregion
  

  I did not write the code it came from

  http://www.dreamincode.net/code/snippet1683.htm

  HTH

  bones

• I have a zip file loaded as a resource, and referencing it directly from the namespace gives me bytes, not a string. Right-click on your file in the resources designer, and change the filetype from text to binary. Then you will get a bytearray, which you could load into a MemoryStream.