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Read Resource File In C#

In this article, we will read the resource file in C#

What Is A Resource File?

Resource file (files with .resx extension) is used to store data and objects in XML format.

How To Create Resource File In Visual Studio?

To add a new resource file

Right click on the project and click on ‘Add New Item’
From the General tab, select ‘Resource File’

Picture showing adding the Resource File in the project

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Adding Data In Resource File

To add/edit/delete data from resource file, double click on the resource file and enter data in name and value pair (see the following figure)

Picture showing adding the data in the resource file

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Reading Resource File In C#

Create a console application (or any application type) and add following code

System.Resources.ResourceManager rm = new System.Resources.ResourceManager("Reading_resource_file.Resource1", System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly());
Console.WriteLine(rm.GetString("Name"));
Console.WriteLine(rm.GetString("URL"));

In the above code, we have specified the resource file as ‘namespace.folder.resource’. In the above code

Project namespace is ‘Reading_resource_file’
Folder name – As resource file is placed on the root folder of the project so we can ignore folder name.
Resource – This is the file name of the resource file without extension.

Now run the application and you get the following output

Picture showing output of reading resource file in C#

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Posted By -	Karan Gupta

Posted On -	Tuesday, January 31, 2017

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