WebResourceAttr ibute: cannot get a valid web resource url!

[coz]

Someone please help! I cannot for the life of me get a web resource in
asp.net 2.0 to return any content.

I know I have correctly embedded my resources (because I can manually get
the resources from my assemblies at runtime.)

The URLs I get back are valid (they throw no errors) but they return zero
content. I get a broken page from text/html resources and broken images, etc.
I can get an error if I use an invalid resource name, so I know my resource
names are correct when I get no error.

I have boiled a project down to nothing but an Assembly with
EmbeddedResourc es and WebResourceAttr ibutes declared, a webpage that gets a
URL for each exposed resource, and even an NUnitASP project to test the
results. I get no content no matter what I do:

I have two resources, a simple html page and an image. My assembly looks
like tihs:

//*************** *************** ******
[assembly: WebResource("im age1.jpg", "image/jpeg")]
[assembly: WebResource("he lp.htm", "text/html", PerformSubstitu tion = true)]
namespace AssemblyWithWeb Resources
{
public class EmptyClass { }
}
*************** *************** ******//
When compiled, I am able to successfully extract the resources so I know
they are embedded correctly:
//*************** *************** ******
System.IO.Strea m s =
resourceAssembl y.GetManifestRe sourceStream("A ssemblyWithWebR esources.help.h tm");
return s.ReadToEnd();
*************** *************** ******//
From my webpage, I use the following to get a web resource url:

//*************** *************** ******
Page.ClientScri pt.GetWebResour ceUrl(typeof(As semblyWithWebRe sources.EmptyCl ass), "help.htm") ;
*************** *************** ******//

This returns valid URLs that dont cause any errors, but also return no data.
I have been through every posting i can find online and nothing gets me past
this problem. Can someone please tell me what I am doing wrong? I know it
isn't a namespace issue (you used to have to append the namespace before the
resource name) because that does cause an error from the generated URL.

I have posted my solution online, if someone would please download it and
kick it around:

http://fluidnature.com/test/TestOfWebResources.zip

Thank you,

f

[coz]

I have re-posted my zip file, after removing the NUnitAsp project and
dependencies because you might not have it installed and its not required to
see the problem. I also I fixed the solution file reference to the website
directory.

Now all you need is VS2005. Extract the contents, open the solution and run
it:

http://fluidnature.com/test/TestOfWebResources.zip

Please, somebody look at this project and tell me what I did wrong embedding
the included resources and exposing them via GetWebResourceU rl? I have found
several other people having this same problem, so it would definately provide
benefit to the community.

Thank you very much,

coz

"coz" wrote:

Someone please help! I cannot for the life of me get a web resource in
asp.net 2.0 to return any content.

I know I have correctly embedded my resources (because I can manually get
the resources from my assemblies at runtime.)

The URLs I get back are valid (they throw no errors) but they return zero
content. I get a broken page from text/html resources and broken images, etc.
I can get an error if I use an invalid resource name, so I know my resource
names are correct when I get no error.

I have boiled a project down to nothing but an Assembly with
EmbeddedResourc es and WebResourceAttr ibutes declared, a webpage that gets a
URL for each exposed resource, and even an NUnitASP project to test the
results. I get no content no matter what I do:

I have two resources, a simple html page and an image. My assembly looks
like tihs:

//*************** *************** ******
[assembly: WebResource("im age1.jpg", "image/jpeg")]
[assembly: WebResource("he lp.htm", "text/html", PerformSubstitu tion = true)]
namespace AssemblyWithWeb Resources
{
public class EmptyClass { }
}
*************** *************** ******//
When compiled, I am able to successfully extract the resources so I know
they are embedded correctly:
//*************** *************** ******
System.IO.Strea m s =
resourceAssembl y.GetManifestRe sourceStream("A ssemblyWithWebR esources.help.h tm");
return s.ReadToEnd();
*************** *************** ******//
From my webpage, I use the following to get a web resource url:

//*************** *************** ******
Page.ClientScri pt.GetWebResour ceUrl(typeof(As semblyWithWebRe sources.EmptyCl ass), "help.htm") ;
*************** *************** ******//

This returns valid URLs that dont cause any errors, but also return no data.
I have been through every posting i can find online and nothing gets me past
this problem. Can someone please tell me what I am doing wrong? I know it
isn't a namespace issue (you used to have to append the namespace before the
resource name) because that does cause an error from the generated URL.

I have posted my solution online, if someone would please download it and
kick it around:

http://fluidnature.com/test/TestOfWebResources.zip

Thank you,

f