c# - ResourceDictionary From External Assembly [read object from UnmanagedMemoryStream]

Question

I have an UnmanagedMemoryStream in below code, How can I get the object from deserilizing it. I was trying to get a Resource (rd.xaml) from an Assembly :

string address = @"WpfControlLibrary1.dll";
Assembly skinAssembly = Assembly.LoadFrom(address);
string name = skinAssembly.GetName().Name +".g";
var manager = new ResourceManager(name, skinAssembly);
ResourceSet rs = manager.GetResourceSet(CultureInfo.CurrentCulture, true, true);

UnmanagedMemoryStream stream = (UnmanagedMemoryStream)rs.GetObject("rd.baml", true);

I'm not able to deserialize the content of Stream into a .net Object(which is a Resource Dictionary in above case). How can I do this?

PS: BinaryFormatter is throwing an exception while Deserialize operation.

Answer 1

Below is how I've done it, with optimized code:

public ResourceDictionary GetResourceDictionary(string assemblyName)
    {
        Assembly asm = Assembly.LoadFrom(assemblyName);
        Stream stream = asm.GetManifestResourceStream(asm.GetName().Name + ".g.resources");            
        using (ResourceReader reader = new ResourceReader(stream))
        {
            foreach (DictionaryEntry entry in reader)
            {
                var readStream = entry.Value as Stream;
                Baml2006Reader bamlReader = new Baml2006Reader(readStream);
                var loadedObject = System.Windows.Markup.XamlReader.Load(bamlReader);
                if (loadedObject is ResourceDictionary)
                {
                    return loadedObject as ResourceDictionary;
                }
            }
        }
        return null;
    }

OUTPUT:

I wanted to read a ResourceDictionary from an External Assembly/Another Project, So that I can iterate it's Resources to use.