Must resource files be compiled with the application?

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Steve E. - 09 Dec 2004 23:36 GMT

Hello,

Do resource files need to be compiled into the application? If not, how can
I do this? If so, isn't that a bit of a limitation?

I'm thinking of a case where the translations may change somewhat
frequently - it would be easy to, say, swap out a text resource file, but
not so desirable to recompile the application. Naturally, I'm considering
using a database instead of a resource file for this, but would like to have
a complete picture of my options.

Thanks for your help,

Steve E.

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Stefan Frutiger - 10 Dec 2004 14:43 GMT

> Do resource files need to be compiled into the application? If not, how
> can
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> have
> a complete picture of my options.

Hi Steve

You can modify or create new translations without recompilation of the main
application:

1. Compile the *.resx files with ResGen.exe into *.resources files

2. Create satellite assemblies (per language) with AL.exe

3. Put the assemblies in a subfolder (e.g. "en" for English, "de" for
German, ...)

Have a look at www.multilizer.com: The tool does a good job for the first
step.

Kindly, Stefan

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Poonam - 14 Dec 2004 22:33 GMT

Hi,
I am also struggling with resource files. I created a web application and
added couple of resx files using .NET studio. As you suggested I compiles
these files and ran
Al.exe /t:lib /embed:labels.resources /culture:en
/out:Lab3-CS-Starter-1.resources.dll

like I mentioned above. But when I ran my application I got following error:

Could not find any resources appropriate for the specified culture (or the
neutral culture) in the given assembly. Make sure
"Lab3-CS-Starter-1.labels.resources" was correctly embedded or linked into
assembly "Lab3-CS-Starter-1". baseName: Lab3-CS-Starter-1.labels
locationInfo: <null> resource file name: Lab3-CS-Starter-1.labels.resources
assembly: Lab3-CS-Starter-1, Version=1.0.1809.21474, Culture=neutral,
PublicKeyToken=null

Could you please help?

Thanks

> > Do resource files need to be compiled into the application? If not, how
> > can
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>
> Kindly, Stefan

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Alfredo Delgadillo - 18 Dec 2004 14:23 GMT

Hi,

whe you get string or object from you satellite assembly send cultureinfo

Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = New
Globalization.CultureInfo("en")
Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = New
Globalization.CultureInfo("en-US")

Dim ret As String = String.Empty

Dim rm As Resources.ResourceManager = New
Resources.ResourceManager("Lab3-CS-Starter-1.labels",
System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly()) 'MyAssembly)
'System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly())
rm.IgnoreCase = True
ret = rm.GetString(<Resource ID>,
Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture)

rm = Nothing
If ret Is Nothing Then ret = String.Empty
MessageBox.Show(ret)

> Hi,
> I am also struggling with resource files. I created a web application and
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> >
> > Kindly, Stefan

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Michael (michka) Kaplan [MS] - 18 Dec 2004 19:43 GMT

"Alfredo Delgadillo" <AlfredoDelgadillo@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote...

> Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = New
> Globalization.CultureInfo("en")

You should be very careful here -- CurrentCulture is used for formatting and
parsing, which will not work with neutral cultures like "en".

> Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = New
> Globalization.CultureInfo("en-US")

CurrentUICulture, on the other hand, *can* be neutral.

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NLS Collation/Locale/Keyboard Technical Lead
Globalization Infrastructure, Fonts, and Tools
Microsoft Windows International Division

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