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# Resource Management

Manage the storyboards and nib files containing your app’s user interface, and learn how to load data that is stored in resource files.

## Topics

### Storyboard

[`class NSStoryboard`](/documentation/AppKit/NSStoryboard)

An encapsulation of the design-time view controller and window controller graph represented in an Interface Builder storyboard resource file.

[`class NSStoryboardSegue`](/documentation/AppKit/NSStoryboardSegue)

A transition or containment relationship between two scenes in a storyboard.

[`protocol NSSeguePerforming`](/documentation/AppKit/NSSeguePerforming)

A set of methods that support the mediation of a custom segue.

### Assets

[`class NSDataAsset`](/documentation/AppKit/NSDataAsset)

An object from a data set type stored in an asset catalog.

### Nib Files

[`class NSNib`](/documentation/AppKit/NSNib)

An object wrapper, or container, for an Interface Builder nib file.

[`@interface NSNibConnector : NSObject`](/documentation/AppKit/NSNibConnector)

A connection between two nibs.

[`@interface NSNibControlConnector : NSNibConnector`](/documentation/AppKit/NSNibControlConnector)

A control connection between two Interface Builder objects.

[`@interface NSNibOutletConnector : NSNibConnector`](/documentation/AppKit/NSNibOutletConnector)

An outlet connection between Interface Builder objects.


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