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Re: Getting resource name

joniba — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:25:15 GMT

Actually my proposed solution, after some research, to the original question, is:

/// &lt;summary&gt;
        /// Returns a dictionary of the name/value pairs of the managed resource-file
        /// </summary>
        public static Dictionary<string, string> BuildResourceDictionary(ResourceManager manager)
        {
            Dictionary<string, string> resourceDict = new Dictionary<string, string>();

            ResourceSet resourceSet = manager.GetResourceSet(CultureInfo.CurrentUICulture, true, true);

            IDictionaryEnumerator enumerator = resourceSet.GetEnumerator();
            
            while (enumerator.MoveNext())
            {
                resourceDict.Add((string)enumerator.Key, (string)enumerator.Value);
            }

            return resourceDict;
        }

Though I implemented it as an extension method.

Of course you could also add a CultureInfo parameter rather than use the CurrentUICulture.

Re: Getting resource name

mnemukula — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:19:05 GMT

Hi there,

try using something like this: Resources.YourResourceName.Name this will give you the value of the name you've selected.

please mark as correct if this helps you get your question right

Re: Getting resource name

joniba — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:02:17 GMT

Good God, isn't there a way to do this without running to the Xml itself? Like with the ResourceSet or something?

Re: Getting resource name

jamlew — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 21:16:35 GMT

Resource files are just XML, where the important part is a series of

<data name="resource name"><value>localized string</value></data>

(though there is a little bit of other stuff).

Here's a sample of parsing it with C# 2.0 (hopefully I did this right, I haven't worked with XML much):

        Dictionary<string, string> resourceDict = new Dictionary<string,string>();
        XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
        doc.Load(Server.MapPath("~/App_GlobalResources/Resources.resx"));
        XmlNodeList resourceList = doc.GetElementsByTagName("data");
        foreach (XmlNode node in resourceList)
        {
            string name = node.Attributes["name"].Value;
            string value  = ""; // fallback value if for some reason it doesn't have a value
            foreach (XmlNode childNode in node.ChildNodes)
                if (childNode.Name.Equals("value"))
                {
                    value = childNode.InnerText;
                    break;
                }

            resourceDict.Add(name, value);
        }

 If you're using C# 3.0, this becomes a lot easier:

 var resourceDict = from n in XElement.Load(Server.MapPath("~/App_GlobalResources/Resources.resx")).Elements("data")                    select new { Name = (string)n.Attribute("name"), Value = (string)n.Element("value") };

Getting resource name

MADCookie — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 20:04:34 GMT

Is there a way to loop through the items in a resource file so I can get the item's name and value?