Martin Hatch – SharePoint Evangelist

The message I really want to get across … Don’t use Properties/Resources.resx

 

SharePoint resource files should be stored in one of 2 places (there are other places, but they are not commonly used):

 

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o   Config

§  Resources ß Location 1 – use this for all Pages, Controls and Web Parts

o   Resources ß Location 2 – use this for all Features, Site Definitions, List Definition, Content Types (i.e. all CAML)

 

If you need to access those resources from code, then use the following:

 

C# (programmatically)

String strValue = System.Web.HttpContext.GetGlobalResourceObject(“NameOfResourceFile”, “NameOfProperty”).ToString();

 

ASPX  Markup

<%$Resources: NameOfResourceFile, NameOfProperty%>

 

XML (CAML)

$Resources: NameOfResourceFile, NameOfProperty;