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Peter
Peter

Reputation: 11890

Xamarin looking for resources at the wrong place

Environment: Visual Studio 2015, Xamarin 4.7.9.45, Xamarin Android 7.4.5.1

My development environment used to work fine until yesterday and now I am not able to debug properly. While loading string resources, the following code from AppResources.designer.cs throws a "file-not-found" exception:

 public static string Button_Username {
   get {
      return ResourceManager.GetString("Button_Username", resourceCulture);
   }
 }

The resource culture is "en-US." The string resource Button_Username is indeed defined. Otherwise, the above lines of code wouldn't even be there in the auto-generated AppResources.designer.cs file.

Upon inspecting the exception in the debugger, it appears Xamarin is trying to load the following file:

/storage/emulated/0/Android/data/myapp.mycomp.com/
    files/.__override__/en-US/MyProject.resources.dll

We generate MyProject.resources.dll for many other languages but not en-US as it is the default language. Why is Xamarin trying to load this dll? Shouldn't it be looking into resources.arsc file? Regards.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 417

Answers (1)

Elvis Xia - MSFT
Elvis Xia - MSFT

Reputation: 10831

We generate MyProject.resources.dll for many other languages but not en-US as it is the default language. Why is Xamarin trying to load this dll? Shouldn't it be looking into resources.arsc file?

resources.arsc works for Android Native localization. But you are currently developing a Xamarin.Forms App and using its localization, where the related .resw files will be complied into MyProject.resources.dll and as your project sets en-US as the default culture.

If you have created AppResources.en-US.resw file and current culture is en-US. Your app will try to look for this file, which is contained in .../en-US/MyProject.resources.dll.

If you didn't created AppResources.en-US.resw your app will search the string in AppResources.resw file.

Upvotes: 1

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