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I have run into this kind of issue several times (too often). Sometimes they make the members private or internal for no discernible reason. The we either have to dublicate lots of code using Reflector or use reflection, hoping that we run in a full trust context.
Anyway for this particular problem you could alternatively have made the private constructor protected in you subclass and just call the private base constructor using reflection.
Like this:
public class ResxResourceManager:ResourceManager {
protected ResxResourceManager(string baseName, string resourceDir, Type usingResourceSet) {
Type baseType=GetType().BaseType;
BindingFlags flags=BindingFlags.NonPublic|BindingFlags.Instance;
ConstructorInfo ctor=baseType.GetConstructor(flags, null,
new Type[] { typeof(string), typeof(string), typeof(Type) }, null);
ctor.Invoke(this, flags, null, new object[] { baseName, resourceDir, usingResourceSet }, CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
}

public ResxResourceManager(string baseName, string resourceDir)
:this(baseName, resourceDir, typeof(ResXResourceSet)) {
}
}

Hi. I tried using your ResxResourceManager, but didn't manage to make it work. MissingManifestResourceException etc.

But I used the lines:
Type resource = typeof(Resources.Site);
ResourceManager rm = new ResourceManager(resource);
rm.GetString(preFix + customString);

Site is a a resx-file in AppGlobalResources-folder. That worked, which was just the thing I needed. Thought I should tell, in case I need it later and forgot. :P

Thanks.

Hi. I tried using your ResxResourceManager, but didn't manage to make it work. MissingManifestResourceException etc.

But I used the lines:
Type resource = typeof(Resources.Site);
ResourceManager rm = new ResourceManager(resource);
rm.GetString(preFix + customString);

Site is a a resx-file in AppGlobalResources-folder. That worked, which was just the thing I needed. Thought I should tell, in case I need it later and forgot. :P

Thanks.

Sorry about the duplicate, I use Opera, and spent some minutes on writing the comment, hopefully you can easily remove one of them.

Bet this one will be a duplicate too, then I just say "Oops!".

I'm getting the same MissingManifestResourceException as Anders and it turns out that things go wrong when the resource files are stored in a path of which the name contains spaces. I haven't found a solution to this yet. Maybe one of you have?

If I find one, I'll post it.

Cheers,

Pascal.

Thanks so much - this was just what I needed for a tricky localization problem I ran into. I am using VB.net though, so here is a (working) VB.net version of your same class (for any other VB.netters out there!)

Imports System.Resources

Imports System.Reflection

Public Class ResxResourceManager
Inherits ResourceManager

Public Sub New(ByVal baseName As String, ByVal resourceDir As String)

BaseNameField = baseName
ResourceSets = New Hashtable()

Dim baseType As Type = Me.GetType.BaseType
Dim flags As BindingFlags = BindingFlags.Instance Or BindingFlags.NonPublic Or BindingFlags.SetField

baseType.InvokeMember("moduleDir", flags, Nothing, Me, New Object() {resourceDir})
baseType.InvokeMember("_userResourceSet", flags, Nothing, Me, New Object() {GetType(ResXResourceSet)})
baseType.InvokeMember("UseManifest", flags, Nothing, Me, New Object() {False})
End Sub

Protected Overrides Function GetResourceFileName(ByVal culture As Globalization.CultureInfo) As String

Dim resourceFileName As String = MyBase.GetResourceFileName(culture).ToLower

Return resourceFileName.Replace(".resources", ".resx")

End Function

End Class

What is ResXResourceSet?
Is this a class that I should create myself?
What are the contents?

@erwin:

If you look at the documentation on MSDN:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.resources.resxresourceset.aspx

You'll see that you need a reference to System.Windows.Forms

Thanks man, the code worked like a charm for me. Used it from a Console App.