Xna: Texture2D from a png file

Question

I'm making a tile based game, and I'm working for support of tilesets. I'm trying to make it so that a Texture2D is set as a chosen PNG file. I can do this with no problem f I load the image into the content pipeline, but the level editor will be used by people without access to the content pipeline. How do I go about doing this?

Answer 1

You can call the Texture2D.FromStream static method. Just pass it a stream to the png file. I'm pretty sure it works without the content pipeline.