Silverlight: Reading from a File Contained in your XAP

The approach you take to reading from a file that is contained in your XAP is different from one you might take reading a file that is on a server or one that you have copied over to your ClientBin (which could be done using WebClient). To do this first add the file to your Silverlight project and set the Build Action for this file to be of type Resource.Next, create a URI that points to the file