Access Resource File

Question

Can anyone tell how to access resource file in class library asp.net mvc4? I'm building a generic Class Library that I will use it in all my projects. I tried with following code:

  HttpContext.GetGlobalResourceObject();

Can anyone tell any other method is there to access the resource file in class library?

Answer 1

Edit based on the comments, including best practices :

To create a Resource file in MVC4 : In the solution explorer, right click on your project. Then, you click on "Add", then on "Add ASP.Net folder", and then click on App_GlobalResources. On the new folder, you right click. Then you add a new Resource File.

You open then this Resource file and can add new resources. The lefter column is where you set the keys, and the righter one is for the values you have to insert inside it.

Then; it is really easy, you just have to write the following parts of code to access the values you want.

On the c# side, it is :

Resources.NameOfYourResFile.NameOfYourResKey

On the ASP side, assuming that you're using razor, it is :

@Resources.NameOfYourResFile.NameOfYourResKey

Example : If you have created a a file named "Global.resx", and created the key "ApplicationTitle", which has "My super website" as value, you just have to write the following line of code to put it for example into a string :

 string siteTitle = Resources.Global.ApplicationTitle;

and that's it

Answer 2

When you create your resource you have to set the access level from internal (by default) to public. After this you simply can access your resources (if you reference the assembly) by the name of the resource and the static properties generated into them.