How to embed an Xslt-file in an assembly

Problem
How do I embed an Xslt file into an assembly so that I won’t have to deploy the file together with the assembly, set configuration options to refer to the file, etc?

Solution

1. Create a resource (.resx) file in the project
2. In the resource designer, click “Add Resource” and choose “Add Existing File…”. Select the Xslt file.
3. Give the new resource a describing name, such as “FilterContentXslt”. The contents of the Xslt file will be available in a string property with this name in the Resource manager.
4. Code that performs the transformation:

   // Parse the content into an XmlDocument
   XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
   doc.LoadXml(xmlValue);
   
   // Retrieve the embedded resource containing the XSLT transform
   XmlDocument xsltDoc = new XmlDocument();
   xsltDoc.LoadXml(Resources.FilterContentXslt);
   
   XslCompiledTransform trans = new XslCompiledTransform();
   trans.Load(xsltDoc);
   
   // Perform the transformation
   StringWriter writer = new StringWriter();
   trans.Transform(doc, writer);
   string newXmlValue = writer.ToString();
   

Simple, and it works.

/Emil