I will be loading Bitmaps and other data, so I'm thinking of binary serialization, but I might have quiet a few bitmaps. These would be randomly needed while the program is running. If I add them as resources, the file size could be huge for the executable.
Does anyone have a recommendation on how I should organize this? I don't want the images to be openly available in the directory structure and I have not heard of any packing managers for data files with visual basic.
In fact is there a external data file resource manager for vb .net?
I might be confused about this? Is it possible to do binary serialization for bitmaps? Is this an error free process?
Does anyone have a recommendation on how I should organize this? I don't want the images to be openly available in the directory structure and I have not heard of any packing managers for data files with visual basic.
In fact is there a external data file resource manager for vb .net?
I might be confused about this? Is it possible to do binary serialization for bitmaps? Is this an error free process?