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Resources
Resources are .resx
files with string values that we use for error messages and such.
They live in src\<project>\resources
folders.
At the moment dotnet cli
doesn't support generating C# bindings (strongly typed resource files).
We are using src\windows-build\gen
folder in src\windows-build
with pre-generated .cs
files to work-around it.
See issue 756 for details.
Editing resx files
Don't edit resx files from Visual Studio.
It will try to create .cs
files for you and you will get whole bunch of hard-to-understand errors.
To edit resource file, use any plain text editor. Resource file is a simple xml, and it's easy to edit.
Updating string
If you just updated the string value, that's all you need to do: no need to re-generate .cs
files
Adding or removing string
When you adding or removing string, .cs
file need to be changed.
- Run
Start-ResGen
function frombuild.psm1
- Make sure your code is building with newly generated resources (run
Start-PSBuild
). - Go to submodule (
cd src\windows-build
) and perform the submodule commit dance. Follow working with submodule rules