Do I need the resx Designer.cs file?

Question

My company uses a combination of some database tables, a web page front end and an \"export\" application to handle our string resources in our web sites.

The export

Answer 1

If you prefer to automatically generate the *.designer.cs files from *.resx files when building the project, the following approach worked for us and it might work for you as well:

1. Close your solution
2. Open as an XML file the project file in which you want to automatically generate the designer files. Note that you need to load it as an XML file. You can't edit these settings through the project property page.
3. Add a target to the project as follows:

4. Locate the target named "BeforeBuild". This target may be commented out (the default).
5. Modify the "BeforeBuild" target as follows:

This solution is based on all resource files being listed as "EmbeddedResource" within an ItemGroup of the project file, e.g.

  
    PublicResXFileCodeGenerator
    Display_Creditor.Designer.cs
    Acme.Web.Resources.Creditor
  
  
    PublicResXFileCodeGenerator
    Tooltip_InboundEmailDetails.Designer.cs
    Acme.Web.Resources.InboundEmail
  
  
    PublicResXFileCodeGenerator
    Tooltip_CreditorDetails.Designer.cs
    Acme.Web.Resources.Creditor
  

Disclaimer: This has been tested with Visual Studio 2013 and C# projects. It may or may not work for other projects and/or other versions of Visual Studio.