Localization/Resource files in Class Library

Question

I am trying to achieve globalization in a .NET class library. In a .NET web application this seems to work fine. I can add multiple resource files under the App_GlobalResources.

e.g.

LocalizedText.resx
LocalizedText.fr.resx

However resource files are handled differently in Class Libraries. I add a resource file by
1) Opening the Properties for the Class Library
2) Clicking on the Resources Tab
3) Clicking on the link to create a “default resources file”

With this model it seems to only want to allow one default resources file. I can rename files and seem to get around this “one file” limitation but if I produce resource files with the same names as above there appears to be no code generated for the “LocalizedText.fr.resx” file. If I reference a string in code like so…

myControl.Text = Properties.LocalizedText.MyLocalizedText;

It references the LocalizedText.resx file for the value (ignoring the fact that I have the culture set to French). I’m guessing that whatever auto-generates the code for the designer file sees that there is already a “LocalizedText” class and doesn’t generate the necessary code.

Is there not a way (equivalent to the web application project) that I can use multiple resource files in a Class Library, named differently for each culture, and be able to easily access this in code (trusting .NET to switch appropriately depending on the culture info)?

Many Thanks

Answer 1

First: create a folder in your project named 'MyFolder'.

Second: add a resource file named 'MyResourceFile' to the folder.

Third: where you want access the resource values, import:

using System.Reflection;
using System.Resources;
using MyProject.MyFolder.MyResourceFile;

and create a property that can access the your resource. Like this:

public static ResourceManager oResourceManager = new ResourceManager("MyProject.MyFolder.MyResourceFile", typeof(MyResourceFile).Assembly);

Fourth: Get the data from your property:

oResourceManager.GetString("ResourceKey", System.Globalization.CultureInfo.CurrentCulture);