Hi,
my application loads assemblies with sub features by Assembly.LoadFrom,
depending on what features user chooses to run.

Each assembly needs to be localized. I'm using satellite resource assemblies
in subfolders. But the satellites are not found by program and defaults are
used. FUSLOGVW shows that they are searched only in appbase and private path
of the main application but the sub assemblies are not directly there.

Is it somehow possible to use the standard resource lookup in this way or do
I have to load also resource assemblies with Assembly.LoadFrom and forget
help of framework ?
I don't want to modify .config of the main application, nothing is known
about the sub assemblies in advance.

Thanks,
Jan

Hi Jan,
I have tried and in my test the proper resources were loaded for the sub features' assemblies, regardless if they were in a different folder.
Are you just testing the resource loading by setting the CurrentUICulture on the main application? In this case, the CurrentUICulture does not propagate to different threads or child apps you might load with
LoadFrom and might be the reason why the sub features' resources are not loaded.

thanks,
Aldo


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Hi again Jan,
during a second test I have noticed that the assembly that you load with LoadFrom is actually getting the same Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture object as the main application and it's loading resources
appropriately. So I'm not sure what's happening in your case.

From the main assembly I have invoked the sub DLL as follows

Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = new CultureInfo("it");

Assembly c = Assembly.LoadFrom(@"C:\Test\D\D\bin\Debug\D.dll");
Object o = c.CreateInstance("D.Class1", true);
MethodInfo m = c.GetType("D.Class1").GetMethods()[0];
Object o2 = m.Invoke(o,null);

the main assembly is in a different location than the sub DLL and they both load their appropriate resources from their respective locations (the sub DLL loads its Italian resources)

Aldo

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Hi Aldo,
thanks for answer.

I need to read localized strings. The dll project contains embedded
resource.resx with English texts and resource.cs.resx with Czech ones. Build
creates localized *.resources.dll in subfolder "cs".

I try to load strings in the program like this:
System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICul ture = new
System.Globalization.CultureInfo("cs");
System.Resources.ResourceManager resourceManager = new
System.Resources.ResourceManager("namespace.resour ce",
this.GetType().Assembly);
string txt = resourceManager.GetString("stringID");

FUSLOGVW shows that the resource manager searches for the cs resource dll in
subforlers of the main application, not at the dll location.

Should I do it in different way ?

Regards,
Jan

""Aldo Donetti [MS]"" wrote:

Sorry for the delay Jan - you must have figured it out by now, but if not, you can manually load resources by either:

1. manually locate and load the DLL with LoadFrom, then use a resourceManager on that, as in
string p = Application.StartupPath;
Assembly c = Assembly.LoadFrom(p + @"\cs\LoadResourcesManually.resources.dll");
System.Resources.ResourceManager rm = new System.Resources.ResourceManager("LoadResourcesMan ually.Form1.cs", c);
string txt = rm.GetString("label1.Text");
note that in this case you don't need to set a UICulture because you're loading the DLL containing resources manually

2. do what the Windows Forms' code-behind does and use the ComponentResourceManager
System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICul ture = new System.Globalization.CultureInfo("cs");
System.ComponentModel.ComponentResourceManager resources = new System.ComponentModel.ComponentResourceManager(typ eof(Form1));
string txt = resources.GetString("label1.Text");

3. use the "old" way
System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICul ture = new System.Globalization.CultureInfo("cs");
System.Resources.ResourceManager rm = new System.Resources.ResourceManager(typeof(Form1));
string txt = rm.GetString("label1.Text");

HTH
Aldo

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