Displaying all the resources strings in a resx file

Question

I have a "GUI Strings" .resx file in my application that holds all the strings that I display. I can obviously access each string directly via Resources.Resource_GUI_Strings.CameraSettings_BrightnessLabel

But how do I list all the settings in the .resx file, as their (name, value) pair, is my only option using reflection?

I want to list all the pairs (i.e. CameraSettings_BrightnessLabel & "Brightness") so that the user can edit the string for each item. This is so they can localise the GUI. I don't want to fully internationalise the app, the requirements are only for the user to be able to do it themselves.

So I need to be able to read the pairs of values from the .resx file and then write them back if the users edits them.

Just to add I want to do this at runtime inside the application itself, so I can't parse the .resx file on disk.

Answer 1

Normally I'd use the ResXResourceReader and ResXResourceWriter classes, but my guess is that your resx files will be locked at runtime. You may be better off storing the text in a database instead of resource files to get around this.

This answer shows how to make a custom resource provider / resource manager to store/edit resources in the database. Alternatively you could forgo the resource model altogether and roll your own solution.