Using ResourceManager

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I m trying to use the ResourceManager in a C  class  but don t know what to substitute for the basename when creating a new instance of the ResourceManager class   I have a separate project that contains the resource files which is referenced by my project above named as the following    Resources resx  Resources es-ES resx    If I have a code snippet as follows  what should I substitute for the basename when I want to use the English or Spanish version of the resources   ResourceManager RM   new ResourceManager basename Assembly GetExecutingAssembly       I tried the approach suggested by Tom  but am getting the infamous error     Could not find any resources appropriate for the specified culture or the neutral culture    My solution has two projects where project YeagerTech is a web application and project YeagerTechResources contains all the resources  Project YeagerTech has a reference to YeagerTechResources    I have the following syntax when creating my Resource Manager    ResourceManager RM   new ResourceManager  YeagerTechResources Resources       Assembly GetExecutingAssembly       Obviously  it s incorrect    The resource files in the YeagerTechResources project have their BuildAction set to Embedded Resource    The name of my resource files are  Resources resx and Resources es-ES resx    If someone can simply tell me the exact syntax to use based on my project and resource file names when instantiating the resource manager  I would greatly appreciate it     I ve done everything I can think of to resolve this and can t      This is my last attempt to resolve it here     ResourceManager RM   new ResourceManager  YeagerTechResources Resources   Assembly GetExecutingAssembly      sb Append RM GetString  RegisterThanks       I am getting the following error after executing the code above      Could not find any resources appropriate for the specified culture or the neutral culture   Make sure  YeagerTechResources Resources resources  was correctly embedded or linked into assembly  YeagerTech  at compile time  or that all the satellite assemblies required are loadable and fully signed    I am able to use the resources in the HTML markup with absolutely no issues  but when coming to the C  code in the Controller  I keep on getting the above error   Any help for the exact syntax I need based on my projects would be greatly appreciated

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According to the MSDN documentation here, The basename argument specifies "The root name of the resource file without its extension but including any fully qualified namespace name. For example, the root name for the resource file named "MyApplication.MyResource.en-US.resources" is "MyApplication.MyResource"."

The ResourceManager will automatically try to retrieve the values for the current UI culture. If you want to use a specific language, you'll need to set the current UI culture to the language you wish to use.

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The quick and dirty way to check what string you need it to look at the generated  resources files   Your  resources are generated in the resources projects obj Debug directory   if not right click on  resx file in solution explorer and hit  Run Custom Tool  to generate the  resources files   Navigate to this directory and have a look at the filenames  You should see a file ending in XYZ resources  Copy that filename and remove the trailing  resources and that is the file you should be loading    For example in my obj Bin directory I have the file   MyLocalisation Properties Resources resources  If the resource files are in the same Class library Application I would use the following C   ResourceManager RM   new ResourceManager  MyLocalisation Properties Resources   Assembly GetExecutingAssembly       However  as it sounds like you are using the resources file from a separate Class library Application you probably want  Assembly localisationAssembly   Assembly Load  MyLocalisation    ResourceManager RM    new ResourceManager  MyLocalisation Properties Resources   localisationAssembly

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This SO answer might help in this case  If the main project already references the resource project  then you could just explicitly work with your generated-resource class in your code  and access its ResourceManager from that  Hence  something along the lines of   ResourceManager resMan   YeagerTechResources Resources ResourceManager      then  you could go on working with that ResourceSet resourceSet   resMan GetResourceSet CultureInfo CurrentUICulture  true  true

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I went through a similar issue  If you consider your  YeagerTechResources Resources   it means that your Resources resx is at the root folder of your project   Be careful to include the full path eg    project subfolder s  file  resx   to the ResourceManager constructor

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in priciple it s the same idea as  Landeeyos  anyhow  expanding on that response  a bit late to the party but here are my two cents    scenario    I have a unique case of adding some  roughly 28 text files  predefined  template files with my WPF application  So  the idea is that everytime this app is to be installed  these template  text files will be readily available for usage  anyhow  what I did was that made a seperate library to hold the files by adding a resource resx  Then I added all those files to this resource file  if you double click a  resx file  its designer gets opened in visual studio   I had set the Access Modifier to public for all  Also  each file was marked as an embedded resource via the Build Action of each text file  you can get that by looking at its properties   let s call this bibliothek1 dll i referenced this above library  bibliothek1 dll  in another library  call it bibliothek2 dll  and then consumed this second library in mf wpf app    actual fun               embedded resource file name  lt i gt with out extension lt  i gt  this is vital             string fileWithoutExt   Path GetFileNameWithoutExtension fileName               is required in the next step             without specifying the culture         string wildFile   IamAResourceFile ResourceManager GetString fileWithoutExt           Console Write wildFile               with culture         string culturedFile   IamAResourceFile ResourceManager GetString fileWithoutExt  CultureInfo InvariantCulture           Console Write culturedFile      sample   checkout  testingresourcefilesusage    https   github com Natsikap samples git  I hope it helps someone  some day  somewhere

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There s surprisingly simple way of reading resource by string   ResourceNamespace ResxFileName ResourceManager GetString  ResourceKey     It s clean and elegant solution for reading resources by keys where  dot notation  cannot be used  for instance when resource key is persisted in the database

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