putting data of a file in an image file of an application, for array initialization.

[Garrett2011]

considering visual C++ compiler, Lets say I've got a file with whatever extension and it contains 100 bytes of data which are exactly the data that I want to initialize an array of char data type with a length of 100 characters with, Now apparently one way is to read those data out of file by using I/O file classes or APIs at run-time but what I want to know is that, is there any way using directives or something to tell the compiler I want to put that data in a right place in my application image files at compile time and compiler should go read those data out of that file?