Bracket Counter (using Embedded Resources)

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Reflection;
using System.IO;
namespace ReadText
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {

            var cheese = GetTextResource("TextFile1.txt");
            Console.WriteLine(cheese.Count(x => x == '{'));
            Console.WriteLine(cheese.Count(x => x == '}'));
            Console.ReadLine();
        }

        public static string GetTextResource(string name)
        {
            Assembly assembly = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly();
            string contents = string.Empty;
            try
            {
                Stream strm = assembly.GetManifestResourceStream(assembly.GetName().Name.ToString() + "." + name);
                StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(strm);

                contents += reader.ReadToEnd();

                reader.Close();
                return contents;
            }
            catch (IOException ex)
            {
                Console.WriteLine(ex.Message);
                return string.Empty;
            }
            catch (ArgumentNullException ex)
            {
                Console.WriteLine(ex.Message);
                return string.Empty;
            }
        }


    }
}