.NET make a copy of an embedded file resource to the local drive

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Published on 2010-04-08T19:19:05Z Indexed on 2010/04/08 19:23 UTC
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Hi, i'm new to the realm to working with Files in .NET

I'm creating a WPF application in VB.NET with the 3.5 Framework. (If you provide an example in C#, that's perfectly fine.)

In my project I have a Template for an MS Access database. My desired behavior is that when the users clicks File-->New, they can create a new copy of this template, give it a filename, and save it to their local directory.

The database already has the tables and some starting data needed to interface with my application (a user-friendly data editor)

I'm thinking the approach is to include this "template.accdb" file as a resource in the project, and write it to a file somehow at runtime?

Any guidance will be very, very appreciated.

Thanks!

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