Managing Resource Files with Visual Studio .NET
Built into the Visual Studio .NET IDE is the ability to write completely global applications through the use of resource files.
Resource files are XML-based files that describe a form. Each time you add a new form to an application, a .resx file accompanies the form in the Solution Explorer. Normally, this file contains only basic information about the form, and doesn't do a whole lot. Figure 15.7 is the form1.resx file for the Culture Info Browser form you wrote earlier.
Figure 15.7. The form1.resx file in the XML Designer.
When you add controls to a form, the Windows Forms Designer adds code to ...
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