Question

Trying to access a specific localised resource file such as WebResource.en.us which is located in my App_GlobalResources folder using the following code:

string resData = GetGlobalResourceObject("WebResource.en.us", "SomeResource").ToString();

but this keeps giving me the error below:

Could not find any resources appropriate for the specified culture or
the neutral culture. Make sure “Resources.WebResource.en-us.resources”
was correctly embedded or linked into assembly
“App_GlobalResources.bpqqrnv4” at compile time.

Any ideas ?

Answer 1

I tried the following Code

Page_Load(....)
{
   /// note - i did NOT mention the culture when accesing my resourceFiles
   Debug.WriteLineIf(
       GetGlobalResourceObject("WebResource", "someResource")!=null,
       GetGlobalResourceObject("WebResource", "someResource").ToString());

   /// accessing a culture specific resource without changing Page Culture
   CultureInfo yourCI = new CultureInfo("en-US");
   Debug.WriteLine(
      HttpContext.GetGlobalResourceObject(
          "WebResource", 
          "someResource", 
          yourCI).ToString());
}

my Page directive

<% Page Culture="en-US" UICulture="en-US" .....  %>

My App_GlobalResources folder contains two files

• WebResource.resx
• WebResource.en-US.resx

Using this settings and code – my Debugger printed the value without any problems.
When removing WebResource.resx (my default ressource file) the same code throws an exception.

I would assume that you have to add a default resx file and remove the explicit culture notation in GetGlobalResourceObject(…, ..).

update: added some code to access specific resx culture file
see also MSDN