Question

I Have around say 6 dll’s ( No source code ).
They do not contain any Logic but just a .resx file that contains a string table.

Is there a way where I can extract the Id’s and values from the string table from each of these dll’s and Export it to a text file?

Answer 1

Knowing the assembly name and the resource file, you can load it using reflection.

// Resources dll
var assembly = Assembly.LoadFrom("ResourcesLib.DLL");

// Resource file.. namespace.ClassName
var rm = new ResourceManager("ResourcesLib.Messages", assembly);

// Now you can get the values
var x = rm.GetString("Hi");

To list all Keys and Values you can use the ResourceSet

var assembly = Assembly.LoadFrom("ResourcesLib.DLL");
var rm = new ResourceManager("ResourcesLib.Messages", assembly);

var rs = rm.GetResourceSet(CultureInfo.CurrentCulture, true, true);

foreach (DictionaryEntry r in rs)
{
    var key = r.Key.ToString();
    var val = r.Value.ToString();
}

If you don’t have access to the resources lib, you can see what are the namespaces, classes, and everything else through Reflector as mentioned by Leo.