ASP.NET Core DisplayAttribute Localization

Question

According to the documentation:

The runtime doesn’t look up localized strings for non-validation attributes. In the code above, “Email” (from [Display

Answer 1

For those who struggle (@lucius, @vladislav) with error:

Cannot retrieve property 'Name' because localization failed. Type 'Xxxx.EmployeeResx' is not public or does not contain a public static string property with the name 'FirstName'.

It is caused by access modifier on .resx files which is by default set to Internal (in my case it was No code generation). Change it to public in Access Modifier dropdown in the resource file toolbar.

After that you should be able to see the properties from the resource type:

Also, consider not using special signs in field names as they are a basis for auto-generated C# property names. The field names are converted into C# friendly names and that is why you can end up with inconsistency between name of resource file field and name of auto-generated property. Best to avoid any hyphens - or dots . Underscores _ are fine. You can always look up how the auto-generated properties look like in resource_file_name.Designer.cs class under the related resource file.

Many thanks to Bala Murugan who wrote a good article concerning this topic on Code Digest.