Question

How to migrate .RESX file when changing .NET Framework…

I was changing the .NET framework from 4.0 to 3.5 (because of an incompatbility we discovered in a third party dll) and everything went fine except some .RESX file got messed up. I was starting to fix them manually but is there some tool I can use for this? Or how do you guys do it?

Answer 1

Same as “impr0t” (do a global replace) but generally you will have this problem with RESX files: “Can not load assembly … or one of its dependencies. Attempt to load a program with an invalid structure” and it will point to something like this in your RESX file:

<metadata name="icons_20.TrayLocation" type="System.Drawing.Point, System.Drawing, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a">
    <value>115, 17</value>
 </metadata>
 <data name="icons_20.ImageStream" mimetype="application/x-microsoft.net.object.binary.base64">
    <value>     AAEAAAD/////AQAAAAAAAAAMAgAAAFdTeXN0ZW0uV2luZG93cy5Gb3JtcywgVmVyc2lvbj00LjAuMC4w        LCBDdWx0dXJlPW5ldXRyYWwsIFB1YmxpY0tleVRva2VuPWI3N2E1YzU2MTkzNGUwODkFAQAAACZTeXN0
...
...
...     AQEB7wL/BwABeAEBAeAJAAFwAQAB4AkAAWABAAFgCQABQAEAAWALAAEgCwABIDsAASAJAAFAAQABIAkA
AUABAAEgCQABYAEAAWAJAAFwAQAB4AkAAXgBAQHgCQABfAEHAeALAAEPAv/3AAs=
</value>
 </data> 

so the fix is described here:

http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/532584/error-when-compiling-resx-file-seems-related-to-beta2-bug-5252020

from that site:

Workaround

1. Open Form in Designer and make needed GUI changes. Close designer and save
2. Compile project and receive RESX compile error (only forms with Imagelist should have this problem)
3. Double-click resx compile error to open resx file.
4. Scroll to top of imagestream.
5. Edit the top line of the Image stream: AAEAAAD/////AQAAAAAAAAAMAgAAAFdTeXN0ZW0uV2luZG93cy5Gb3JtcywgVmVyc2lvbj00LjAuMC4w
   TO
   AAEAAAD/////AQAAAAAAAAAMAgAAAFdTeXN0ZW0uV2luZG93cy5Gb3JtcywgVmVyc2lvbj0yLjAuMC4w
6. Close and save resx file and recompile.

**NOTE: the only difference are the characters at end “j00LjAuMC4w’ to “j0yLjAuMC4w”