Question

I have an application on which I am implementing localization.

I now need to dynamically reference a name in the resouce file.

assume I have a resource file called Login.resx, an a number of strings: foo=’hello’, bar=’cruel’ and baz=’world’

normally, I will refer as: String result =Login.foo; and result==’hello’;

my problem is, that at code time, I do not know if I want to refer to foo, bar or baz – I have a string that contains either ‘foo’, ‘bar’ or ‘baz’.

I need something like:

Login[‘foo’];

Does anyone know if there is any way to dynamically reference a string in a resource file?

Answer 1

You’ll need to instance a ResourceManager for the Login.resx:

var resman = new System.Resources.ResourceManager(     'RootNamespace.Login',     System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly() ) var text = resman.GetString('resname'); 

It might help to look at the generated code in the code-behind files of the resource files that are created by the IDE. These files basically contain readonly properties for each resource that makes a query to an internal resource manager.