1. In VC IDE,add new resource type such as "RES_DATA",then add your file to the project
resource as the new type.
2. Fetch your file from executable file at runtime,can use follow function:
BOOL Res2File( LPCTSTR lpName, LPCTSTR lpType, LPCTSTR filename )
{
HRSRC hRes = ::FindResource( NULL, lpName, lpType );
HGLOBAL gl =::LoadResource( NULL, hRes );
LPVOID lp = ::LockResource( gl );
HANDLE fp = ::CreateFile( filename, GENERIC_WRITE, 0, NULL, CREATE_ALWAYS, 0, NULL
);
if( fp == INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE )
return FALSE;
DWORD a;
if( !::WriteFile( fp, lp, SizeofResource( NULL, hRes ), &a, NULL ) )
return FALSE;
CloseHandle( fp );
FreeResource( gl );
return TRUE;
}
Use this function such as this format:
Res2File( MAKEINTRESOURCE(ID_RES_DATA), "RES_DATA", "C://FontRes.TTF" );