I'm working on a ASP.NET MVC2 project, for which I have configured the localisation as follows ...
I have a separate Resources assembly, containing all my resx files. The settings for each resx file are...
Build Action = Embedded Resource Copy to Output Directory = Do not copy Custom Tool = PublicResXFileCodeGenerator Custom Tool Namespace = Resources
I have a tool which exports the strings from a database into the resx files and calls the resgen.exe tool to recreate the designer.cs file.
This all worked great, even when I changed the language settings of my browser and refreshed the page. It would pick up the correct strings.
That was in a temporary working folder (I use subversion). I've now moved to working in my normal folder and am getting a rather odd error.
Compiler Error Message: CS0433: The type 'Resources.XXXX' exists in both 'c:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\Temporary ASP.NET Files\root\6c657d01\aaca70ae\assembly\dl3\a36dac65\78c87110_3724cb01\Resources.DLL' and 'c:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\Temporary ASP.NET Files\root\6c657d01\aaca70ae\App_GlobalResources.g6fehiio.dll'
I have deleted all of my temporary asp.net files, re-run the web app and it regenerates both of the above mentioned assemblies. The really odd thing is that this all worked before I moved to my usual working folder.
So, can anyone tell me what is generating this App_GlobalResources assembly, which I don't need or want, because all my resources are contained in the Resources assembly I've created.
PS - The reason I went with Resources.dll was to get around a problem I was having with generating the resources using my database extract tool. (see here)
PPS - I am using VS2010