Resource as a filename

Question

Im using EMGUCV at Visual Studio 2017. I need to set a XML file to a cascadeClassifier like this:

CascadeClassifier cascadeClassifier = new CascadeClassifier(@"cascadeClassifier\haarcascade_frontalface_alt2.xml");

Doing this way I need to get a copy of XML file to my Release. So I discover the resource stuff by this question here. So I add the XML to my resource and tried to access it by:

CascadeClassifier cascadeClassifier = new CascadeClassifier(Properties.Resources.haarcascade_frontalface_alt2);

But this object resource is a string and the CascadeClassifier is expecting a filename, is there a way to do it?

what is the content of your resource? It should the filename — Krzysztof Skowronek, Dec 07 '17 at 12:32
The content is a XML. I think when I try to get the resource I'm getting an object, instead a file that EMGU could stream. — dsicari, Dec 08 '17 at 10:17

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 07 '17 at 12:29

Well, according to the API documentation the construction takes in a filename (as you said), but the type of the filename can be a string (must be a string) so there should be no problem when you pass in a string from a resource file/dictionary: http://www.emgu.com/wiki/files/2.4.2/document/html/b5ce78f6-d5cc-a099-d1a8-25df92564f64.htm

Constructor is:

public CascadeClassifier(
    string fileName
)

See also this question/answer for an example (without resources used): How to load a CascadeClassifier using Emgu c#

Resource as a filename

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