In Visual Studio 2005 you could not make these values public. You will notice that at the top of the resx editor you have the ability to select rather or not the values in the resx are internal or public.
I have uploaded the source code for this example as well if you would like to see the entire solution. If I un-comment the line of code that is commented out above (this code changes the culture form the default of US to de-DE which is Germany) and run the application again I get different text as the resx resource that is used is for my de-DE culture. The next time I build the compiler will create a secondary resource.dll file for de_DE. I can then edit the text in this new resx file for my German text. Now I can copy my current resx file of UIStrings.resx and make a new resx file called. When I run the application here is what I get. I can then bind to the static resource of properties:UIStrings.lblXAMLResource which pulls the text for my lblXAMLResource label (I gave my resource string and my label the same name). You will note that I imported the clr-namespace of WpfLocalization.Resources which is the namespace of my resx file. In order to do this binding though you have to include the xmlns import to your resx file. However, I realize that in an enterprise application you will probably need code to decided what text is displayed (this could be accomplished using a trigger in your style but that discussion is for another time). In my opinion this is the best way to do this as all your UI display is isolated to the XAML. You will notice the third label has a binding in the content to do this. LblFromResource.Content = UIStrings.lblFromResourcesText I created three labels in my XAML to show how this will work. I like to create a Resources folder to keep my resx files in (You will have to create a resx file for each language you want to have). So the project file node would look like this:Īdding this to the project file config will cause the IDE to create a resource.dll when you compile. In the first PropertyGroup section you need to add the follow XML node en-US. To make this change you will need to open the project file in notepad (or some other generic editor). The first thing that needs to happen to setup a project for localization is a small change to the project file. The first label has is text set inline in XAML, the second has it text set via code behind from the resx file and the third has its text set via XAML accessing the resx file. To show how the resx option is done I created a WPF form with three labels on it. In this blog I will focus on using a resx file to localize an application. I will make a few of these posts to try and cover all the different options (RESX option, LocBaml option, Resource Dictionary Option). I wanted to revisit this subject and see what has changed in. About a year ago I was building a WPF project in.