How to see resource file content in Visual Studio when created pro programmatically

Question

I created a resource file programmatically. File got created successfully. But when I tries to open it in Visual Studio or notepad it shows me some encoded characters. I was expecting to get an XML.

Here is what I was expecting and getting.

What I did in coding is

    ResourceWriter rw = new ResourceWriter("Resource.en.resx");
    rw.AddResource(value, "name setter");
  //  rw.AddResource(value, "myname");
    rw.Generate();
    rw.Close();

Answer 1

You need to be using ResXResourceWriter to write resx files. The ResourceWriter is for writing system-default binary resource files.