AppDomain.CurrentDomain.AssemblyResolve asking for a .resources assembly?

Question

using the code How to embed a satellite assembly into the EXE file provided by csharptest.net, I\'ve created a custom assembly resolver and embedded my assemblies in my reso

Answer 1

Answering on my own;

Adding this line to AssemblyInfo.cs solves it and resolver will not get asked for resources any-more.

[assembly: NeutralResourcesLanguageAttribute("en-US", UltimateResourceFallbackLocation.MainAssembly)]

Though this is a work-around should be carefully considered multi-language applications.

More Info:

• https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/526836/wpf-appdomain-assemblyresolve-being-called-when-it-shouldnt
• http://blogs.msdn.com/b/kimhamil/archive/2008/11/11/what-does-the-neutralresourceslanguageattribute-do.aspx
• http://forums.devshed.com/net-development-87/c-wpf-appdomain-assemblyresolve-being-called-when-it-shouldn-t-669567.html
• http://blogs.msdn.com/b/microsoft_press/archive/2010/02/03/jeffrey-richter-excerpt-2-from-clr-via-c-third-edition.aspx

This approach fails for machines with non en-US cultures. A better approach is ignoring resources on assembly resolver;

public Assembly Resolver(object sender, ResolveEventArgs args)
        {
            lock (this)
            {
                Assembly assembly;
                AssemblyName askedAssembly = new AssemblyName(args.Name);

                string[] fields = args.Name.Split(',');
                string name = fields[0];
                string culture = fields[2];
                // failing to ignore queries for satellite resource assemblies or using [assembly: NeutralResourcesLanguage("en-US", UltimateResourceFallbackLocation.MainAssembly)] 
                // in AssemblyInfo.cs will crash the program on non en-US based system cultures.
                if (name.EndsWith(".resources") && !culture.EndsWith("neutral")) return null;

                /* the actual assembly resolver */
                ...
            }
      }