Do I need the resx Designer.cs file?

Antony Scott picture Antony Scott · Jul 10, 2010 · Viewed 21.7k times · Source

My company uses a combination of some database tables, a web page front end and an "export" application to handle our string resources in our web sites.

The export application used to work just fine when we used VS2008, but since switching to VS2010 the resources now have a designer.cs file "beneath" them in the solution explorer.

The problem is that the "export" application only generates the .resx files and not the underlying designer.cs files.

So, is there a way to not have those designer.cs files, or alternatively some way to automatically re-generate (or even some command the export application could call to re-generate them)

Answer

ianneub picture ianneub · May 7, 2013

I had a problem where VS 2010 would not regenerate the Designer.cs files, and couldn't find the solution elsewhere.

I was able to regenerate them though, without going to the command line.

To fix the issue in Visual Studio 2010 I did the following:

  1. Deleted the Designer.cs file
  2. Right clicked on the main resx file
  3. Selected Run Custom Tool

That rebuilt the Designer.cs file.

Hope that might help someone else in the future..