how to access a resource from Resources.resx?

Question

_{Friday, June 19, 2015 10:23 PM}

I have a simple winform app in VS2013.  In the project properties I added a resource in the properties/resource tab.  I would like to know how I can access this resource -- a string value -- which I could display in a messagebox for example:

--in Project Properties Resource tab I entered this

Name                         Value
TEST_TESTING    this is a resource test

--in Resource.Designer.cs it looks like this:

namespace WindowsFormsApplication1.Properties {
    using System;    
    
    /// <summary>
    ///   A strongly-typed resource class, for looking up localized strings, etc.
    /// </summary>
    // This class was auto-generated by the StronglyTypedResourceBuilder
    // class via a tool like ResGen or Visual Studio.
    // To add or remove a member, edit your .ResX file then rerun ResGen
    // with the /str option, or rebuild your VS project.
    [global::System.CodeDom.Compiler.GeneratedCodeAttribute("System.Resources.Tools.StronglyTypedResourceBuilder", "4.0.0.0")]
    [global::System.Diagnostics.DebuggerNonUserCodeAttribute()]
    [global::System.Runtime.CompilerServices.CompilerGeneratedAttribute()]
    internal class Resources {
       
        private static global::System.Resources.ResourceManager resourceMan;
       
        private static global::System.Globalization.CultureInfo resourceCulture;
       
        [global::System.Diagnostics.CodeAnalysis.SuppressMessageAttribute("Microsoft.Performance", "CA1811:AvoidUncalledPrivateCode")]
        internal Resources() {
        }
       
        /// <summary>
        ///   Returns the cached ResourceManager instance used by this class.
        /// </summary>
        [global::System.ComponentModel.EditorBrowsableAttribute(global::System.ComponentModel.EditorBrowsableState.Advanced)]
        internal static global::System.Resources.ResourceManager ResourceManager {
            get {
                if (object.ReferenceEquals(resourceMan, null)) {
                    global::System.Resources.ResourceManager temp = new global::System.Resources.ResourceManager("WindowsFormsApplication1.Properties.Resources", typeof(Resources).Assembly);
                    resourceMan = temp;
                }
                return resourceMan;
            }
        }
       
        /// <summary>
        ///   Overrides the current thread's CurrentUICulture property for all
        ///   resource lookups using this strongly typed resource class.
        /// </summary>
        [global::System.ComponentModel.EditorBrowsableAttribute(global::System.ComponentModel.EditorBrowsableState.Advanced)]
        internal static global::System.Globalization.CultureInfo Culture {
            get {
                return resourceCulture;
            }
            set {
                resourceCulture = value;
            }
        }
       
        /// <summary>
        ///   Looks up a localized string similar to this is a resource properties test.
        /// </summary>
        internal static string TEST_TESTING {
            get {
                return ResourceManager.GetString("TEST_TESTING", resourceCulture);
            }
        }
    }
}

--and in the xml file it looks like this

  <data name="TEST_TESTING" xml:space="preserve">
    <value>this is a resource properties test</value>
  </data>
</root>

in Form1 I would like to click a button and display the value of TEST_TESTING.

I saw one application that did this:

string str1 = _Resources.SOME_RESOURCE;

where _Resources is declared internally in the Designer.cs file, but when I try something like that in my sample app -- it doesn't work.  What am I missing?

Rich P

All replies (2)

_{Friday, June 19, 2015 10:36 PM ✅Answered}

Nevermind -- I figured it out

string str1 = WindowsFormsApplication1.Properties.Resources.TEST_TESTING;

Rich P

_{Monday, June 22, 2015 2:50 AM}

Glad you've made it, and thanks for sharing your solution here.

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