My.Resources in Class Library not behaving as expected when deployed

Question

ASP.NET application w/CSLA framework; Visual Studio 2008

I have a class library of business objects. I am storing the broken rules strings in the Resource file associated with the project (My Projects > Resources.resx). I added a new resx file to the project and named it Resources.fr-CA.resx to store the french language equivalents of the rules.

I am calling the strings with the My.Resources object, like this:

e.description = My.Resources.BrokenRulesString

This works like a charm when I run the application locally (i.e. hit "play" in Visual Studio). However, when I build and deploy the application to another environment I always get the values in the default resource file.

Even if I explicitly set the culture to "fr-CA" in the Resources.Designer.vb file, like this, the property returns the string from the default resource file:

Public ReadOnly Property BrokenRulesString() As String
   Get
        Return ResourceManager.GetString("BrokenRulesString", "fr-CA")
   End Get
End Property

It looks to me like the application can't see the fr-CA resource file so defaults to the... default file. Any tips to get this working?

Thank you.

Answer 1

You need to make sure the satellite assembly containing your localized strings is deployed in the correct directory structure. See this MSDN article for details.

From the article:

After you have compiled your satellite assemblies, they all have the same name. The runtime differentiates between them based upon the culture specified at compile time with Al.exe's /culture option and by each assembly's directory location. You must place your satellite assemblies in expected directory locations.

Answer 2

Ultimately it came down to the fact that I hadn't added the proper Project Output Group (Localized resources) for the Business.Library project to the setup project. I added it to the bin folder and now the deployed application works like a charm as well.

Oded, thanks for getting my head pointed in the right direction. Cheers!