Question

I have a Silverlight application with resource files containing strings for localization.

Since there will be a huge number of strings, I was looking for a nice way to create identifiers. So I went to this page where it is said:

Do use the dot separator (“.”) to nest identifiers with a clear hierarchy.

For example, names such as Menus.FileMenu.Close.Text and
Menus.FileMenu.Close.Color conform to this guideline.

But when I try to use such identifiers (like Foo.Bar), Visual Studio keeps telling me that the resource name is not a valid identifier… It’s just a warning and doesn’t prevent my application from building but then my resources are not found at runtime.
Of course everything is fine if I change the identifiers for simpler ones like Foo).

What am I doing wrong? What did I miss in the Microsoft guideline?

Any help, hint or suggestion would be appreciated.

Answer 1

From here:

Or you can disable generating strongly-typed feature for your .resx
file. To do this, you can select your .resx file in the solution
explorer, go to the property page for that file item, set “Custom
Tool” and “Custom Tool Namespace” to be empty string.

I tried this and it worked.