George V. Reilly's Technical BLog

NVelocity: loading templates from embedded resources

In last week's tip on using the NVelocity template formatting engine, I described what to set to load a template from an absolute path.

Here's the magic necessary to get NVelocity to load a template from an embedded resource:

 VelocityEngine engine = new VelocityEngine();
 ExtendedProperties properties = new ExtendedProperties();
 properties.AddProperty("resource.loader", "assembly");
 properties.AddProperty("assembly.resource.loader.class",
     "NVelocity.Runtime.Resource.Loader.AssemblyResourceLoader, NVelocity");
 properties.AddProperty("assembly.resource.loader.assembly", "StencilFormatter");
 engine.Init(properties);