Visual Studio resource editor

Question

I am trying to view a .resx file in the resource editor in Visual Studio, but Visual Studio is unable to open it with this program. I right clicked on the .resx file and then chose Open With. It gave me a list of different programs I could choose to open my .resx file with, including XML Editor, HTML Editor, Binary Editor and Resource Editor. I chose the Resource Editor and clicked OK. After Visual studio gave me an error message stating: "The file cannot be opened with the selected editor. Please chose another editor.". How can I make it work?

Answer 1

Try creating a new one from the IDE and opening that to see if it's an actual VS problem or if your resource file is corrupted somehow. I'm going to guess it's the latter.

Answer 2

As I understand it .resx is just a textfile, so should be able to open it in notepad to check if it is ok (not corrupt).

Answer 3

If you're using an Express edition, may that (the ability to edit a compiled resource) is one of the features that's disabled in Express editions.