In a WPF application, for a localizable text resource such as an error message, should I be using a .resx file or a ResourceDictionary. If the answer is either/or what factors would help me decide which to use?
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In a WPF application, for a localizable text resource such as an error message, should I be using a .resx file or a ResourceDictionary. If the answer is either/or what factors would help me decide which to use?
Using .resx files – with the name of the culture in the filename – is probably the easiest way to go. The loading of the appropriate resources is handled for you.
So you’d have “ResourceFile.resx” as your default and then “ResourceFile.en-GB.resx”, “ResourceFile.fr-FR.resx” etc for your localised strings.
You only need to put those strings that actually need localisation in the language files. If the string’s not present in the culture specific file it falls back to the default file.