I've been looking at using local resources in my ASP.NET 2.0 apps lately and I think I must be missing something. Either no one uses local resources on large websites, or there is some other way to manage local resources that I am not aware of. For example, say your website has 40 pages. You localize for 30 languages. That is 1200 resx files that you are having to deal with, not just for deployment,  but also manage and synchronize as they go back and forth to the translaters. So, my questions are...

1. Can local resource files be compiled into a single assembly that is deployed? I think windows forms can compile resource files using resgen.exe, not sure about web apps.
2. If not, are there any pratical solutions to managing the vast number of local resources created for websites?
3. Has there been any changes in how resources are handled in .NET 3.0 or 3.5?

Thanks!

Justin

Hi Justin,

You need to find a balance between using global and local resource files. I would suggest that you put common resources in a global resx files instead of local ones so that number of resource files are restrcited to a minimum.

HTH,

Vivek