Apparently, my understanding of .resx files was flawed – I had assumed (without testing) that they were deployed as XML so as to remain editable at a later time – clearly, this is incorrect. So, I’m left with a gap I need to fill for the labels and format strings in our company’s web application, hopefully someone here can point me in the right direction.
I’m looking for a solution that can support multiple languages, and can be edited by a system administrator at a later date. For the first requirement, resx files work perfectly – if the UI culture is changed, the appropriate resource is used, or it defaults to the top level resource if no culture specific resource is available. Unfortunately, if company A wants a resource string to be “Account Number”, and company B wants that same string to be “Account ID”, we have no good way to support this – we don’t want to have to compile a different version of the web site for each company, just to change a few resource strings – ideally, those strings could simply be set by the company’s tech person after deployment.
Is there a framework out there that will be of use here? Or perhaps a different way to approach the problem using resx files?’
You really can’t use resx files for your pre-compiled solution.
There are two options:
Deploy an uncompiled version of your site.
Implement a database solution, and create an administrative area for updating the text, so a user may log in and make changes. You would be able to maintain your precompiled code.