Xamarin forms Resources designer.cs not creating using visual studio mac

Question

I'm facing a strange issue I have created a brand new xamarin forms project and i'm trying to adding Resource file in the shared project but when i add the Resource file then .resx extenshion file is created Like AppResources.resx creates but the code behind like AppResource.designer.cs not creating

Things that i have tried.

1. I have try multiple time and clean rebuild the project.
2. Create new project and try to again add resource file.
3. use custom tool to build the resource.

Answer 1

To manually fix the csproj, so it generates AppResources.designer.cs from AppResources.resx, follow these steps:

• Close Solution (or quit Visual Studio).
• Open YourProject.csproj in any text editor.
• Find all lines that refer to AppResources.designer.cs or AppResources.resx.
• Add or change as needed, to be similar to this (from https://github.com/xamarin/xamarin-forms-samples/blob/main/UsingResxLocalization/UsingResxLocalization/UsingResxLocalization/UsingResxLocalization.csproj):

  <ItemGroup>
    <Compile Update="Resx\AppResources.Designer.cs">
      <DesignTime>True</DesignTime>
      <AutoGen>True</AutoGen>
      <DependentUpon>AppResources.resx</DependentUpon>
    </Compile>
  </ItemGroup>
  <ItemGroup>
    <EmbeddedResource Update="Resx\AppResources.resx">
      <Generator>PublicResXFileCodeGenerator</Generator>
      <LastGenOutput>AppResources.Designer.cs</LastGenOutput>
    </EmbeddedResource>
  </ItemGroup>

• Save the csproj file.
• Open your solution.