How to locate resources in Orchard

Question

I am writing an Orchard theme, and I\'d like to be able to locate some of the resources packaged with the theme (images/swfs etc).

What is the best way of doing this

Answer 1

I slapped together an extension method for a similar problem:

public static string ResourceUrl(this HtmlHelper helper, string resourceType, string resourceName)
{
    var manager = helper.Resolve();
    var settings = new RequireSettings { Type = resourceType, Name = resourceName, BasePath = resourceType };
    var resource = manager.FindResource(settings);
    var context = new ResourceRequiredContext { Resource = resource, Settings = settings };

    var url = context.GetResourceUrl(settings, "/");

    return url;
}

Resource Manifest Definition:

manifest.DefineResource("Content", "MyImage").SetUrl("Content/myimage.png");

View Usage:

@Html.ResourceUrl("Content", "MyImage")

It's not well tested, and could probably use some error handling, but its working for me.