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Pratik Mehta
Pratik Mehta

Reputation: 1352

Combine string resource files

I am working on Universal app(with Prism). Here is my scenario.

I have a string resource file in following projects:

1) Windows - Resources.resw - This file has windows specific string resources.

2) WindowsPhone - Resources.resw - This file has phone specific string resources

3) Shared - SharedResources.resw - This file has string resources which are common between windows and phone.

Now, How can I make ResourceLoader to search resources in "SharedResources.resw" and "Resources.resw" both the files?

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 611

Answers (1)

Pratik Mehta
Pratik Mehta

Reputation: 1352

I have extended the ResourceLoader class as following:

public class ResourceLoaderEx : IResourceLoaderEx
{
    //This method is used when the PCL contains .resx file instead of .resw.
    public string GetString(string resource,  string baseName, Assembly assembly)         {
            ResourceManager resourceManager = new ResourceManager(baseName, assembly);
            return resourceManager.GetString(resource);
    }


    public string GetString(string resource)
    {
        ResourceLoader resourceLoader;
        if (resource.Contains("\\"))
        {
            resourceLoader = ResourceLoader.GetForCurrentView(resource.Substring(0, resource.LastIndexOf("\\")));
            resource = resource.Substring(resource.LastIndexOf("\\") + 1);
        }
        else
        {
            resourceLoader = ResourceLoader.GetForCurrentView();
        }
        return resourceLoader.GetString(resource);
    }
}

This class covers following scenarios(below code is under my UILoic class):

var windowsSpecificResource = resourceLoader.GetString(@"windows");  // This will fetch the resource from Resources.resw file

 var sharedResource = resourceLoader.GetString(@"SharedResources\testforshared");  // This will fetch the resource from the SharedResources.resw file

var pclResource = resourceLoader.GetString("SaveErrorMessage", "Contoso.UILogic.Strings.Resources", typeof(Strings.Resources).GetTypeInfo().Assembly); // This will fetch the resource from Resources.resx file which is in my UILogic project.

Any comments?

Upvotes: 0

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