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What is the relevance of *.resx file in Windows Forms/controls ?

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purpose of form1.designer.cs and form1.resx

I Understand about *.designer file grouped with a windows form/control file. But not sure what is the relevance and use of *.resx file attached.

Can i not create a form/control with this file attached to it?

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The Windows Forms designer persists designed forms by generating code. Lots of control properties are however difficult to express in code. A form's Icon property or a PictureBox' Image property for example. Lots of bytes associated with them. The .resx file format was optimized to store those property values.

A secondary use for them is to be able to easily localize your UI design. The designer makes it easy, it automatically generates .resx files for each language you support.

Hans Passant  2010-06-08 12:50:22
Well, it wasn't a duplicate as far as the answer goes. You and I know that :)
Hans Passant  2010-06-09 22:09:18

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