Using .NET Resourcemanager

Everytime I give the ResourceManager a chance I’m running into the same problem: usually I get a ManifestException ” Could not find any resources appropriate for the specified culture”. So, what’s the problem? When you create an instance of ResourceManager you have to supply the root name of the resources and the assembly of them.

The difficult thing is the root name! I thought this is given in the form <AssemblyName>.<ResourceFile> (without a file extension). But that’s not always true. To make sure you have the right name just open ildasm and examine the assembly with your embedded resources. The manifest contains an entry beginning with .mresource public. The name after these words is the right resource root name (without the .resources extension).

Here’s an example. The manifest contains the entry .mresource public De.Speedesign.CustomMessages.resources. So you have to create the ResourceManager this way:

ResMngr = new ResourceManager("De.Speedesign.CustomMessages", typeof(MyClass).Assembly);

Usually it’s a good practice to hold the ResourceManager in a static variable and create it only once.

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