Re: embedding resources for globalization (complete frustration)

The dll with the resource inside has this on the manifest:
.assembly machinelocator.resources
{
  .hash algorithm 0x00008004
  .ver 1:0:1990:18389
  .locale = (65 00 6E 00 2D 00 55 00 53 00 00 00 )             // e.n.-.U.S...
}
.mresource public 'machinelocator.machinelocator.en-US.resources'
{
}
.module machinelocator.resources.dll
// MVID: {71E99932-5420-4450-890B-ABA1404B3170}
.imagebase 0x00400000
.subsystem 0x00000003
.file alignment 4096
.corflags 0x00000001
// Image base: 0x02ca0000



On 6/13/05, lizet peña <lizet.pena@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello Mark,
> Thanks for your reply.
> 
> My main problem seems to be embedding the .resource file I generate
> from the .resX into the satellite assembly. The ResourceManager class
> won't get the values inside the XML .resx file so the .resX file needs
> to be converted into the binary .resources version. (resgen
> myresources.en-US.resx myresources.en-US.resources).  Although the
> resources embedding into a satellite assembly seems to work fine,
> here's a copy of my cmd session:
> 
> C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\machinelocator\bin\en-US>resgen machinelocator..en-USresx
> Read in 234 resources from 'machinelocator.en-US.resx'
> Writing resource file...  Done.
> 
> C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\machinelocator\bin\en-US>al.exe /t:lib 
> /embed:machinelocator.
> en-US.resources /culture:en-US /out:machinelocator.resources.dll
> Microsoft (R) Assembly Linker version 7.10.3077
> for Microsoft (R) .NET Framework version 1.1.4322
> Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation 2001-2002. All rights reserved.
> 
> 
> C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\machinelocator\bin\en-US>ildasm 
> machinelocator.resources.dll
> 
> ildasm shows in the manifest that machinelocator.en-US.resources is
> inside the dll.
> 
> So far everything seems to be working. Inside my bin directory I have
> a folder for each culture bin\en-US\ has the
> machinelocator.resources.dll satellite assembly.
> 
> On my code there's is something like this:
>  Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = New CultureInfo(Me.CurrentCulture)
>             Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture =
> CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture(Me.CurrentCulture)
> ...
> 
> Dim a As [Assembly] = [Assembly].Load("machinelocator")
>                     Dim rm As ResourceManager = New
> ResourceManager("machinelocator", a)
>                     Dim str As String = rm.GetString("errorMessage",
> Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture)
> 
> However, I put the name of the application on the ResourceManager, and
> the name of the application is not the same name of the namespace
> where this assembly runs (IRONSearch), probably that's the source of
> error.  I truly don't know if the name to be put there is the name of
> the project or the namespace for that particular assembly. I always
> get the following exception:
>         ex.Message      "Could not find any resources appropriate for the
> specified culture (or the neutral culture) in the given assembly.
> Make sure "machinelocator.resources" was correctly embedded or linked
> into assembly "machinelocator".
> baseName: machinelocator  locationInfo: <null>  resource file name:
> machinelocator.resources  assembly: machinelocator,
> Version=1.0.1990.18389, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null"   String
> 
> Also the Culture info I get is for the neutral Culture when I had set
> the en-US culture.
> 
> I tested ResourceManager("IRONSearch", a) as IronSearch is the name of
> the namespace where the executing assembly is, and I get the same
> error. The root namespace though is "machinelocator".
> Sorry that I didn't use generic terms for this, but I guess it's ok.
> Any idea?
> Thanks a lot in advance,
> Lizet
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 6/13/05, Mark Kucera <mkucera@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I've used embedded resources w/ VS.NET 2003 quite successfully.  Here are 
> > the steps I've used...
> >
> > 1.  Create the resource files for each culture i.e.
> >         ResourceFile.resx
> >         ResourceFile.FR.resx
> >         ResourceFile.DE.resx
> > Etc...
> >
> > And add your translated strings to the files.
> >
> > 2. Then create a helper class to retrieve the managed content, something 
> > like this:
> >
> > public static string GetResourceContent(string name)
> > {
> >         ResourceManager res = new ResourceManager("Root Namespace Name 
> > Here", Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly());
> >                         return res.GetString(name);
> > }
> >
> > 3.  I generally put this method in a custom control, similar to a label 
> > that I can put on a page and assign the string name to retrieve from the 
> > resource file...
> >
> > namespace MyNameSpace
> > {
> >         using System;
> >         using System.Web.UI;
> >         using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
> >         using System.Resources;
> >         using System.Reflection;
> >
> >         /// <summary>
> >         ///             Summary description for SiteTextControl.
> >         /// </summary>
> >         public abstract class SiteTextControl : System.Web.UI.UserControl
> >         {
> >                 private string _Name;
> >                 private string _CssClass;
> >
> >                 private void Page_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
> >                 {}
> >
> >                 public string Name
> >                 {
> >                         get {return _Name;}
> >                         set {_Name = value;}
> >                 }
> >
> >                 public string CssClass
> >                 {
> >                         get
> >                         {
> >                                 if (_CssClass == null || _CssClass.Length 
> > == 0)
> >                                         _CssClass = "font-md";
> >
> >                                 return _CssClass;
> >                         }
> >                         set {_CssClass = value;}
> >                 }
> >
> >                 protected sealed override void CreateChildControls()
> >                 {
> >                         ResourceManager res             = new 
> > ResourceManager("Root Namespace Name Here", 
> > Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly());
> >                         string _Text                    = "";
> >                         if (_CssClass != null && _CssClass.Length != 0)
> >                                 _Text = "<span class=\"" + _CssClass + 
> > "\">" +  res.GetString(_Name) + "</span>";
> >                         else
> >                                 _Text = res.GetString(_Name);
> >
> >                         LiteralControl lit              = new 
> > LiteralControl(_Text);
> >                         Controls.Add(lit);
> >                         lit.Dispose();
> >                 }
> >
> >                 public static string GetResourceContent(string name)
> >                 {
> >                         ResourceManager res             = new 
> > ResourceManager("Root Namespace Name Here", 
> > Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly());
> >                         return res.GetString(name);
> >                 }
> >
> >                 #region Web Form Designer generated code
> >                         protected sealed override void OnInit(EventArgs e)
> >                 {
> >                         //
> >                         // CODEGEN: This call is required by the ASP.NET 
> > Web Form Designer.
> >                         //
> >                         InitializeComponent();
> >                         base.OnInit(e);
> >                 }
> >
> >                 ///             Required method for Designer support - do 
> > not modify
> >                 ///             the contents of this method with the code 
> > editor.
> >                 /// </summary>
> >                 private void InitializeComponent()
> >                 {
> >                         this.Load += new 
> > System.EventHandler(this.Page_Load);
> >                 }
> >                 #endregion
> >         }
> > }
> >
> >
> > 4.  Then I add the control to a page (or other control) where I want to use 
> > managed content
> > <%@Register tagprefix="MyTagPrefix" Tagname="SiteTextControl" 
> > src="SiteTextControl.ascx" %>
> >
> > <p> <MyTagPrefix:SiteTextControl id="Sitetextcontrol1" runat="Server" 
> > name="Name of string to lookup" /></p>
> >
> > As long as you have set the System.Globalization.CultureInfo.CurrentCulture 
> > to the correct target culture, you can rely on the resource manager to read 
> > the string from the correct resource file.  It should fall back on the 
> > English version if it can't find the string in the target culture's 
> > resource file.
> >
> > I think the most tricky thing I encountered when I was setting this up, was 
> > making sure the namespace that I passed in to the ResourceManager 
> > constructor was correct, but you should be able to use Reflector, or ILDasm 
> > to make sure your resource files are being included in the assembly, and to 
> > check their names...
> >
> > Good Luck
> > MK
> >
> >
> >
> > Mark Kucera
> > mkucera@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Discussion of building .NET applications targeted for the Web 
> > [mailto:DOTNET-WEB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of lizet peña
> > Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 10:56 AM
> > To: DOTNET-WEB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [DOTNET-WEB] embedding resources for globalization (complete 
> > frustration)
> >
> > Well, our team decided to go back to VS 2003 instead of deploying the
> > project on 2005, the reasons are not part of this email.
> > Our current problem is with 1.1 Framework. We have a .resX file for
> > each web form on the project and would like to access each resource in
> > it. The ResourceManager class would only work with .resources files
> > and in order to access them,  these files should be embedded into
> > satellite assemblies.
> > We followed the steps in
> > http://www.codeproject.com/dotnet/Localization.asp
> >
> > Al.exe
> > /t:lib
> > /embed: MyApplication.en-GB.resources,
> > /culture:en-GB
> > /out:MyApplication.resources.dll
> >
> > and created a MyApplication.resources.dll for each culture. We
> > previously converted the .resX files into .resources with resgen.exe.
> > Resgen MyApplication.en-GB.resX
> >
> > In order to load the specific resource:
> >
> > Dim a As [Assembly] = [Assembly].Load("MyApplication")
> >                     Dim rm As ResourceManager = New
> > ResourceManager("searchUI", a)
> >                     Dim str As String = rm.GetString("errorMessage",
> > Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture)
> >
> > The assembly loads fine and the resource manager is instantiated
> > correctly, however when we try to get the string with the particular
> > resource, there's is an exception saying the resource cannot be
> > located, to make sure the .resource file is embedded in the satellite
> > assembly.
> > Any ideas of where to start troubleshooting the error are more than
> > welcome, I have generated the satellite assemblies three times now and
> > honestly don't know why the resources aren't loaded at all.
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Lizet
> >
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