Working with embedded resources

I have an application that works with Visio drawing control and it needs to use a file with shapes for Visio drawing. I want to embed that file (stencil.vss) into my application so that I don't have to provide my stencil file when distributing application. I don't know how to access that file in code. My function needs file path to load that .vss file, so really what I don't know is, when that file is compiled along with application开发者_运维知识库, how can I get it's path, because I need to provide a string as function parameter.

To the best of my recollection, you do need to provide a file system path to the Visio API in order to open a *.vss stencil file.

How are you embedding it in your application? Perhaps you could read it from its embedded location, and write it out to a user app data location, and then reference it after it's written out to disk on a per-user basis.