How to get string resources from specific resource file in C#

Question

In some cases in our project we have to ignore current culture of application and get resources in English.

Basically, we do it like for all languages

<label>@ModelEntities.Properties.Resource.Gender</label>

How is it possible to get in English only?

I assume we have somehow created some reference to Resource.resx ?

I have used

 ResourceManager rm = new ResourceManager("Resource.Strings",
                     Assembly.GetAssembly(typeof(ModelEntities.Properties.Resource))); 
  var s = rm.GetString("Age");

But it seems like not working.

Thank you!

Solution 1

I found the working solution.

First of all our resource files are ending like

Resource.resx

and not like Resources.resx

And in second we have resources in a separate assembly: ModelEntities

So the working code is following

var resourceManager = new ResourceManager(typeof(ModelEntities.Properties.Resource)); 
var genderString = resourceManager.GetString("Gender", ci);

Solution 2

You can use the resource manager class click here for more info about the class

System.Globalization.CultureInfo ci = new System.Globalization.CultureInfo("en-GB"); 
ResourceManager resourceManager = new ResourceManager("YourResource", Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly()); 
string bodyResource = resourceManager.GetString("yourText", ci);

Solution 3

A simple way:

YorResourceName.ResourceManager.GetString("ResourceKeyName", System.Globalization.CultureInfo.GetCultureInfo("en-US"))

Solution 4

Folder structure:

MyApplicationSolution
         /Resources
            /Resource.resx

public static string GetLocalisedRes(string resourceName = "", string resourceNameKey = "")
    {
        string translate = string.Empty;
        string baseName = "YourNameSpace.Resources." + resourceName + "";

        try
        {
            Type resType = Type.GetType(baseName);
            ResourceManager rm = new ResourceManager(baseName, resType.Assembly);
            translate = rm.GetString(resourceNameKey);
        }
        catch {
            translate = string.Empty;
        }
        return translate;
    }

Usage

    var age = GetLocalisedRes("Resource", "Age");

This working for me

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Comments

[Adel Mourad]

thanks is works,, for the "ci" definition got it from the previous answer