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.

If you just updated the string value, that's all you need to do: no need to re-generate .cs files

When you adding or removing string, .cs file need to be changed.

Run Start-ResGen function from build.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