My web-application project (not “web-site” project) is translated to 15 different languages using the ASP.NET’s built-in resource engine – which means I have tons of *.aspx.resx files in the “App_LocalResources” folder.
All these resources are precompiled by ASP.NET when I first launch the application and it takes a lot of time. I mean A LOT. 5-10 minutes. I have to wait 5-10 minutes every time I make some tiny change to my code, just to see how it works.
Is there any way to pre-compile these resource in Visual Studio? Changing the “Build Action” for all these resx-files to “Embedded resource” does not work 🙁 (or I’m doing it wrong?)
PS. I know I can write a batch file that will launch aspnet_compiler.exe with a lot of command-line-arguments and manually compile the app with all the resources, but thats a “hack”. I need a documented “Visual Studio”-way to achieve this. Cause I have a setup-project for this app in the same solution, that picks up the “project output” of this web-app (and it won’t pick-up any manually precompiled files I made)
Create a post-build event that will launch the ASP.NET compiler
Aspnet_compiler -p “src_folder” -v / “dest_folder”