Reading Resources at Runtime
At this point, you've created a resource file, created the custom build step to create the binary resource file, and set up the project to link in that file to your built assembly. The final step this hour is to use those resources from managed C++ code.
Included within the .NET Framework is a class named ResourceManager that's specifically designed to work with application resources. In addition to being able to read resources at runtime, ResourceManager is also culture aware. By you specifying a language and sublanguage (collectively known as a culture) when using the ResourceManager class, it has the ability to select the proper resource based on that culture. If one is not found, it returns the default resource ...
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