One of the new great features of Visual Studio .NET 2005/2008 IDE is a custom tool called ResXFileCodeGenerator that is automatically associated with resources (.resx files) every time they are added into a project. Whenever your project is rebuilt, a resource file is saved or a custom tool is run manually, the tool in question generates a managed class that exposes every resource you have in the .resx file as a strongly typed static property. Now any type of a resource supported - including images, icons, string, etc. - is a piece of cake to retrieve.
