How to embed png resource without visual studio converting to bitmap?

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I am using Visual Studio 2015. When I add an existing .png file to my project's resources, VS recognizes it is an image and changes the format to a bitmap. It changes the size and bytes.

This is really annoying since I need the exact original png, not some converted bitmap. When I use c# to access my resource, e.g. Resources.MyPngFileName it returns the changed bitmap. Does anyone know how to avoid this?

Why don't you just have it in the solution files, outside the resources? — Ammar Hamidou, Dec 01 '15 at 20:09
Possible duplicate of [How to add PNG resource in Visual Studio 2010?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9316549/how-to-add-png-resource-in-visual-studio-2010) — JD Davis, Dec 01 '15 at 20:09
@Jdsfighter, yes, though the answer in VS2015 is to remove the extension. The accepted answer for that question doesn't work. If you'd like to answer I will accept — Mario, Dec 01 '15 at 20:46
just upvote the answer that did work; thats how it is supposed to work — Ňɏssa Pøngjǣrdenlarp, Dec 01 '15 at 21:01
All pixel based images are bitmaps. Don't confuse this with the BMP format. — TaW, Dec 02 '15 at 10:21

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 03 '15 at 16:16

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For 2015 (not the suggested duplicate answer for 2010) the only thing that works is to take off the .png extension and add as a file. Then Visual Studio does not change the file.

Maybe they will change this in a future update to work like 2010

answered Dec 03 '15 at 16:16

Mario

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