C# – In C#, How to create satellite resource that will be used at design time

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I am trying to localize an application, but I have a couple restrictions. I must use Resx-based localization (I cannot use LocBaml). Also, all resources, including the fallback resource (en-US), must be stored in a satellite assembly. No resources can be embedded with the application.

Here's my problem. Every time I add a string, I must add it to Resources.resx and then add the same string to the fallback resource, Resources.en-US.resx. If I understand it correctly, the Resources.resx file is used at compile/design time, while the Resources.en-US.resx files ends up being the one used at runtime. Is there any way around this? Can I somehow link the two so that only one file will need to be changed?

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How about a simple pre-Build action that copies your default .resx file(s) to the en-US version? I seem to remember that the culture-codes are not recorded inside, so a simple Copy File would do.

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This will get you a string array of all the resources:

System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetManifestResourceNames();

R – Combine LocBaml and Resources in single satellite assembly

You have to manually do this generating .resources from LocBaml and then merging the Resx and BAML resources using the Assembly linker.

The process looks something like this:

LocBaml.exe /generate ..\obj\WpfLocalization.g.en-US.resources 
            /trans:Res\de.csv /out:de /culture:de

REM Combine resource files w/ Assembly Linker
al /template:WpfLocalization.exe 
   /embed:de\WpfLocalization.g.de.resources 
   /embed:..\..\obj\WpfLocalization.Properties.Resources.de.resources   
   /culture:de  /out:de\WpfLocalization.resources.dll

(everything on one line in a batch file).

You can put the above in a batch file customized for your project. Remember LocBaml has to in the same folder as your output files. You can add this as a post build task.

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