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I want to include a large look-up table (100,000 of 3-byte values) inside a C# module.

Is there a compiler directive that will load binary data from an external file into a static string ?

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Why not use an embedded resource? – Lucero Oct 6 '10 at 18:30
I will do that. Thanks. – Martin Oct 6 '10 at 18:49
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Why not just include the file into the assembly as an embedded resource, and then load it using Assembly.GetManifestResourceStream? Then just load it from the stream into whatever in-memory data structure you want.

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This looks like it will do the trick. Thanks. – Martin Oct 6 '10 at 18:49
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