Embedding Localization Resources .DLL's to the Executable in C#?

Question

I want to make my program multilingual. I have successfully made the program multilingual via Form's Localizable and Language properties. It made some .resx files. Then I deleted non-needed files such as images (which they are the same in all langauges) etc from the .resx files.

The problem is, for example, it also generates a folder called "en" and in that folder, another generated file is called "ProjectName.resources.dll".

Is there anyway to embed this resource file to the .exe? Adding it to the resources and setting Build Action to "Embedded Resource" doesn't work also.

Thanks.

Answer 1

In .NET Framework 4 you can embed resource library into executable.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.appdomain.assemblyresolve.aspx

Just create same structure ( with localized folders 'lib/en', 'lib/de' ) and embed them.

private static Assembly MyResolveEventHandler(object sender, ResolveEventArgs args) {
    AssemblyName MissingAssembly = new AssemblyName(args.Name);
    CultureInfo ci = MissingAssembly.CultureInfo;

    ...
    resourceName = "MyApp.lib." + ci.Name.Replace("-","_") + "." + MissingAssembly.Name + ".dll";
    var stream = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetManifestResourceStream(resourceName)
    ...
}