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

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

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

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") };

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

 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

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

/// <summary>
        /// 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.