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kahoona
kahoona

Reputation: 185

ASP.NET resource cannot be found in view

I created an MVC5 project where I originally had my resource files in the root of the project. In my views I referenced "Resource.name", for example:

@Html.ActionLink(Resource.CreateButtonText, "Create")

I then decided to move my resource files to a folder called "Resources". My views then showed an error:

The name 'Resource' does not exist in the current context

How do I get rid of this error?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1170

Answers (2)

Stephen Kennedy
Stephen Kennedy

Reputation: 21548

Almost certainly what has happened here is that the Visual Studio designer has modified the namespace in the resource class to match the folder name.

Try changing:

@Html.ActionLink(Resource.CreateButtonText, "Create")

to:

@Html.ActionLink(Resources.Resource.CreateButtonText, "Create")

or add a using directive to your view:

@using Resources

Alternatively, if Resource is a .resx file, right click on the .resx file in Visual Studio and click Properties, and edit the namespace.

Upvotes: 1

kahoona
kahoona

Reputation: 185

I found that a using statement can also be done in a view :

@using Resources

where Resources is the namespace configured in the properties of the resource-files (item "Custom Tool Namespace" in VS2017)

Upvotes: 0

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