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Asked: 2026-05-10T19:25:05+00:00

We would like to enumerate all strings in a resource file in .NET (resx

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We would like to enumerate all strings in a resource file in .NET (resx file). We want this to generate a javascript object containing all these key-value pairs. We do this now for satellite assemblies with code like this (this is VB.NET, but any example code is fine):

Dim rm As ResourceManager rm = New ResourceManager([resource name], [your assembly]) Dim Rs As ResourceSet Rs = rm.GetResourceSet(Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture, True, True) For Each Kvp As DictionaryEntry In Rs     [Write out Kvp.Key and Kvp.Value] Next

However, we haven’t found a way to do this for .resx files yet, sadly. How can we enumerate all localization strings in a resx file?

UPDATE:

Following Dennis Myren’s comment and the ideas from here, I built a ResXResourceManager. Now I can do the same with .resx files as I did with the embedded resources. Here is the code. Note that Microsoft made a needed constructor private, so I use reflection to access it. You need full trust when using this.

Imports System.Globalization Imports System.Reflection Imports System.Resources Imports System.Windows.Forms  Public Class ResXResourceManager     Inherits ResourceManager      Public Sub New(ByVal BaseName As String, ByVal ResourceDir As String)         Me.New(BaseName, ResourceDir, GetType(ResXResourceSet))     End Sub      Protected Sub New(ByVal BaseName As String, ByVal ResourceDir As String, ByVal UsingResourceSet As Type)         Dim BaseType As Type = Me.GetType().BaseType         Dim Flags As BindingFlags = BindingFlags.NonPublic Or BindingFlags.Instance         Dim Constructor As ConstructorInfo = BaseType.GetConstructor(Flags, Nothing, New Type() { GetType(String), GetType(String), GetType(Type) }, Nothing)         Constructor.Invoke(Me, Flags, Nothing, New Object() { BaseName, ResourceDir, UsingResourceSet }, Nothing)     End Sub      Protected Overrides Function GetResourceFileName(ByVal culture As CultureInfo) As String         Dim FileName As String         FileName = MyBase.GetResourceFileName(culture)         If FileName IsNot Nothing AndAlso FileName.Length > 10 Then             Return FileName.Substring(0, FileName.Length - 10) & '.resx'         End If         Return Nothing     End Function End Class
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  1. Use System.Resources.ResXResourceReader (it’s in System.Windows.Forms.dll)

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