Task no 2

Krzysztof Mossakowski Advanced Windows Programming 2005 - Tasks

Windows Forms

Resource Viewer

• Application for viewing resources in .NET executable files
  • Design handy and intuitive user interface
  • use splitters and scroll bars
  • allow the user to resize the window
  • Follow the example of .NET Reflector's functionality for resources
    allow to preview also images stored in .resources and .resx format
    • sample DLL file with 3 images you can find here
• DLL with resources:
  • embedded image
• image in .resources format
• image in .resx format
• strings:
  • key: sampleString01    value: This is fantastic string from resources
  • key: sampleString02    value: This is another fantastic string
• no source code
• Hints:
  • Assembly: LoadFile, GetManifestResourceNames, GetManifestResourceStream
  • ResourceReader, IResourceReader
  • IDictionaryEnumerator
  • ResourceManager: GetString, GetObject

• Approximate points:
  • Application:
    • user interface: 2.0
    • list of resources: 1.5
  • preview of images: 3.0
  • preview of other resources (keys and values): 1.5
  • DLL: 2.0