Read and Write Data to Resource File Programmatically

Following are the step by step process to create, read and write into resource file using code.

1.Open a new project in c# .

2. Add a ResourceFile.resx in the project.

3. Add a new class and name it as ResourceCreator

4. Add these following namespaces:

using System.Windows.Forms;

using System.Resources;

using System.Drawing;

using System.IO;

5.Add the folling code snippet in ResourseCreator class

public static void Create(string resFileName, string oString, string imagePath)

  {

    try

       {

          Image oImage = Image.FromFile(imagePath);

         ResXResourceWriter resourceWriter = newResXResourceWriter(resFileName);

         resourceWriter.AddResource("myImage", oImage);

         resourceWriter.AddResource("myString", oString);

         resourceWriter.Close();

         MessageBox.Show("File " + resFileName + " created");

         }

 

//if the file path is wrong or dosn't found

    catch (FileNotFoundException caught)

        {

     MessageBox.Show("Source: " + caught.Source + " Message: " + caught.Message);

        }

}

6.Call this method by ResourceCreater.Create(@”D:\Resource.resx”,”first”,@”D:\Image1.jpg””);

7.Add a new class and name it as ResourceRetriever

8.Add those namespaces:

using System.Windows.Forms;

using System.Resources;

using System.Collections;

9.Add this code in ResourceRetriever class

public static void Retrieve(string resPathName)

  {

     try

        {

//Create a new ResXResource reader and set the resx path to resxPathName

ResXResourceReader resReader = newResXResourceReader(resPathName);

//Enumerate the elements within the resx file and dispaly them

foreach (DictionaryEntry d in resReader)

   {

     MessageBox.Show(d.Key.ToString() + ": " + d.Value.ToString());

    }

//Close the resxReader

    resReader.Close();

      MessageBox.Show("Done");

     }

//If the resx file represents some incoherences

   catch (ArgumentException caught)

  {

     MessageBox.Show("Source: " + caught.Source + "Message: " + caught.Message);

   }

}

10.Call this method by ResourceRetriver.Retrieve(@”D:\Resource.resx”);