diff --git a/App/App.csproj b/App/App.csproj
index 31654df..a36c36b 100644
--- a/App/App.csproj
+++ b/App/App.csproj
@@ -12,9 +12,7 @@
   </ItemGroup>
 
   <ItemGroup>
-    <None Update="UI/MainWindow.xml">
-      <CopyToOutputDirectory>PreserveNewest</CopyToOutputDirectory>
-    </None>
+    <EmbeddedResource Include="UI/MainWindow.xml" />
   </ItemGroup>
 
 </Project>
diff --git a/App/UI/MainWindow.cs b/App/UI/MainWindow.cs
index 86ebf8a..ef26f87 100644
--- a/App/UI/MainWindow.cs
+++ b/App/UI/MainWindow.cs
@@ -6,7 +6,13 @@ public class MainWindow
 
     public MainWindow()
     {
-        var builder = Gtk.Builder.NewFromFile("UI/MainWindow.xml");
+        var assembly = typeof(MainWindow).Assembly;
+        using var stream = assembly.GetManifestResourceStream("App.UI.MainWindow.xml");
+        if (stream == null)
+            throw new Exception("Failed to load embedded resource MainWindow.xml");
+        using var reader = new System.IO.StreamReader(stream);
+        var xml = reader.ReadToEnd();
+        var builder = Gtk.Builder.NewFromString(xml, -1);
         var window = builder.GetObject("main_window") as Adw.Window;
         if (window == null)
             throw new Exception("Failed to load main_window from MainWindow.ui");