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Asked: 2026-05-11T07:36:47+00:00

Does any one know the best way to deploy a resource file to the

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Does any one know the best way to deploy a resource file to the App_GlobalResource folder of the web application when a feature is activated?

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  1. So, as a final followup to this question here is what we finally did to completely automate this process.

    We did, as was suggested, use the ApplicationResourceFile element in the manifest file.

    <?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?> <Solution SolutionId='{185E973C-3A10-4e2a-9E0F-DC14414551F9}'           xmlns='http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/'           DeploymentServerType='WebFrontEnd'>   <ApplicationResourceFiles>     <ApplicationResourceFile Location='yourappname.resx'/>     <ApplicationResourceFile Location='yourappname.en-US.resx'/>   </ApplicationResourceFiles> ... </Solution>

    This did in fact put the files into the ‘resources’ folder. So, we simply accessed the resources from there in code like so:

    string appPath = HttpContext.Current.Request.MapPath(HttpContext.Current.Request.ApplicationPath); ResourceManager resX = ResourceManager.CreateFileBasedResourceManager('ResourceFileName', appPath + 'resources', null);  SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivileges(delegate() {     AddResource(resX, 'DefaultTextBoxLabelText');

    We run this code in the constructor and add the entries from the resource file into a local dictionary. You must use RunWithElevatedPrivileges because the new ‘resources’ folder that is created is only accessable by the AppPool account.

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