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Resources for Windows Application

  • Resources are created automatically by default by VS.Net for Windows forms. They can be plain text files for string resources or XML files for string and binary resources.
  • You can select language for each form and have different layout for each language.
  • This creates satiellite assemblies for each language which are used by runtime depending on the culture selected.
  • Each satellite assembly resides in a culture specific folder which uses ISO naming convention for e.g. for UK English it will be en-GB and for US English it would be en-US.
  • There is no code in the resource dll.
  • Main assembly will use resourse dll in sub directories e.g. en-GB\assemblyName.resources.dll.
  • You can add custom resources.
  • Naming convention for custom resource file [resourceType].[culture].resx. This way the culture specific custom resouce files will be compile in the satellite assemblies [undocumented feature].
  • Resouces files are deployed in \[culture] fodler for windows forms and \bin\[culture] folder for asp.net.
  • You can access culture specific resource using ResourceManager.GetResourceSet(cultureInfo)
  • If the resource manager can't find the specific culture resource, it will fall back to neutal resource. For e.g. en is neautral resource for en-US, en-GB or en-CA.
  • If resource manager can't find netural resouce it will fall back to invariant resouce which is located in main aseembley.
  • A resouce manager bases its resource lookup based on the current thread's UI culture.
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