如何避免在Visual Studio的Resources文件中读取字节顺序标记（BOM）？

I am trying to use the Visual Studio editor to create XML files in the Resources area of an Assembly in C#. The files appear perfectly correct in the XML editor and honour my schema (recognising the elements and attributes). However when I try to read them (from the Resources) they fail because they consistently have 3 spurious characters at the start of the file ( or #EF #BB #BF). I am trying to use the Visual Studio editor to