read string from .resx file in C#

Question

How to read the string from .resx file in c#? please send me guidelines . step by step

Answer 1

If for some reason you can't put your resources files in App_GlobalResources, then you can open resources files directly using ResXResourceReader or an XML Reader.

Here's sample code for using the ResXResourceReader:

   public static string GetResourceString(string ResourceName, string strKey)
   {


       //Figure out the path to where your resource files are located.
       //In this example, I'm figuring out the path to where a SharePoint feature directory is relative to a custom SharePoint layouts subdirectory.  

       string currentDirectory = Path.GetDirectoryName(HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath(HttpContext.Current.Request.ServerVariables["SCRIPT_NAME"]));

       string featureDirectory = Path.GetFullPath(currentDirectory + "\\..\\..\\..\\FEATURES\\FEATURENAME\\Resources");

       //Look for files containing the name
       List resourceFileNameList = new List();

       DirectoryInfo resourceDir = new DirectoryInfo(featureDirectory);

       var resourceFiles = resourceDir.GetFiles();

       foreach (FileInfo fi in resourceFiles)
       {
           if (fi.Name.Length > ResourceName.Length+1 && fi.Name.ToLower().Substring(0,ResourceName.Length + 1) == ResourceName.ToLower()+".")
           {
               resourceFileNameList.Add(fi.Name);

           }
        }

       if (resourceFileNameList.Count <= 0)
       { return ""; }


       //Get the current culture
       string strCulture = CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.Name;

       string[] cultureStrings = strCulture.Split('-');

       string strLanguageString = cultureStrings[0];


       string strResourceFileName="";
       string strDefaultFileName = resourceFileNameList[0];
       foreach (string resFileName in resourceFileNameList)
       {
           if (resFileName.ToLower() == ResourceName.ToLower() + ".resx")
           {
               strDefaultFileName = resFileName;
           }

           if (resFileName.ToLower() == ResourceName.ToLower() + "."+strCulture.ToLower() + ".resx")
           {
               strResourceFileName = resFileName;
               break;
           }
           else if (resFileName.ToLower() == ResourceName.ToLower() + "." + strLanguageString.ToLower() + ".resx")
           {
               strResourceFileName = resFileName;
               break;
           }
       }

       if (strResourceFileName == "")
       {
           strResourceFileName = strDefaultFileName;
       }



       //Use resx resource reader to read the file in.
       //https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.resources.resxresourcereader.aspx

       ResXResourceReader rsxr = new ResXResourceReader(featureDirectory + "\\"+ strResourceFileName);         

       //IDictionaryEnumerator idenumerator = rsxr.GetEnumerator();
       foreach (DictionaryEntry d in rsxr)
       {
           if (d.Key.ToString().ToLower() == strKey.ToLower())
           {
               return d.Value.ToString();
           }
       }


       return "";
   }