Question

I’m using MVC2.

I created a .resx file in a folder I created:

/Resources/
/Resources/en-US.resx

In the properties I set it to use the custom tool: PublicResXFileCodeGenerator.

I compiled the project.

Now in my view page, how do I reference a resource?

Answer 1

In the properties I set it to use the custom tool: PublicResXFileCodeGenerator.

When you did this, Visual Studio generated a strongly typed class for it so that you can access the resources. So simply bring the namespace into scope:

<%@ Import Namespace="AppName.Somenamespace" %>

and then:

<%: Resources.FooBar %>

This assumes that you have a ~/Somenamespace/Resources.resx and ~/Somenamespace/Resources.en-US.resx files and so on: