Question

I would like to show MessageBox (WinForms) with string from Resources with lines breaks.

example without Resources (WORKS):

string someMsg = "Message. Details:\n" + someDetails;

MessageBox.Show(someMsg);

Result:

Message. Details:

here are some details

When I move string “Message. Details:\n” into Resources:

string someMsg = GlobalStrings.MsgBoxJustTest + someDetails;
MessageBox.Show(someMsg);

Result:

Message. Details:\nhere are some details

When I moved string with “\n” to resources then MessageBox.Show() stopped to interpret it as newline.

Edit: I’m thinking about: someMsg.Replace(@’\n’,Environment.NewLine);
but it’s still quite annoying for so simple thing.

Answer 1

if you add that to resources it doesn’t take \n as escape charecter
Just open your resource file in notepad to see this and cahnge in XML file(resx)

or

Type your data in notepad with new line.
Copy that and paste in your resource editor

edit:

or

Type/Paste your data into the resource editor UI, select the \n and replace it with an actual linebreak, with Shift-Enter.