Programmatic way to get all the available languages (in satellite assemblies)

Question

I\'m designing a multilingual application using .resx files.

I have a few files like GlobalStrings.resx, GlobalStrings.es.resx, GlobalStrings.en.resx, etc. When I wa

Answer 1

A generic answer where the resource type to search is specified. Uses reflection but is cached.

Usage:

List comboBoxEntries = CommonUtil.CulturesOfResource()
    .Select(cultureInfo => cultureInfo.NativeName)
    .ToList();

Implementation (Utility Class):

static ConcurrentDictionary> __resourceCultures = new ConcurrentDictionary>();

/// 

/// Return the list of cultures that is supported by a Resource Assembly (usually collection of resx files).
/// 
static public List CulturesOfResource()
{
    return __resourceCultures.GetOrAdd(typeof(T), (t) =>
    {
        ResourceManager manager = new ResourceManager(t);
        return CultureInfo.GetCultures(CultureTypes.AllCultures)
            .Where(c => !c.Equals(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture) && 
                        manager.GetResourceSet(c, true, false) != null)
            .ToList();
    });
}

It may suffer the same issue with the accepted answer in that all the language resources will probably be loaded.