compile my resx files from outside my visual studio

i have a few resource files (.resx) in a dll.

this dll is re开发者_如何学运维ferenced from my website, and compiling creates a 'admin.UserControlResource.dll' dll in my \bin\language folder from my 'UserControlResource.de.resx'

now i have some new resource files (the .resx text file), and i want to compile them into new dll's, outside my project, so i will able to just copy those dll's to my production server.

i tried resgen.exe, but that won't allow me to specify the .dll extension for the generated file.

i tried another extension and rename it to .dll, but that didn't work.

this is what i tried:

resgen UserControlResource.de.resx
     al.exe /t:lib /culture:de /embed:"UserControlResource.de.resources" /out:"Dwight.UserControl.resources.dll"

i've seen (in examples) al.exe been executed with and without /t:lib, but both don't work.

what do i mean with 'dont work'?

resgen creates a .resources file

al.exe creates a dll and shows no warnings

but when i copy the dll to the server the default english resources are used, and not the german (de) ones.

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Sounds like you want to create satellite assemblies and deploy those satellite assemblies. Theres a good explanation of the process and what you need to consider on MSDN: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/sb6a8618%28v=vs.80%29.aspx

Hope that helps :)

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I found a sequence of resgen.exe and al.exe commands that worked for me:

Resgen.exe:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v8.1A\bin\NETFX 4.5.1 Tools\ResGen.exe" Strings.resx

Output:

Read in 10 resources from "Strings.resx"
Writing resource file...  Done.

Al.exe:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v8.1A\bin\NETFX 4.5.1 Tools\al.exe" /t:lib /embed:Strings.resources /culture:en /out:Strings.dll

Output:

Microsoft (R) Assembly Linker Version 12.0.20806.33440
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

The output of this is a dll that can be included into the released version without using Visual Studio.