ASP.NET 4 Unleashed

Retrieving Local Resources Programmatically

If you need to retrieve a local resource in your page code, you can use the GetLocalResourceObject() method. For example, the page in Listing 30.17 grabs a welcome message from a resource file. The welcome message is used to format some text, and then the formatted text displays in a Label control.

Listing 30.17. ProgramLocal.aspx

The result returned from GetLocalResourceObject() must be cast to a string value. As the method name implies, the method returns an object and not a string value. The resource file associated with the page in Listing 30.17, named ProgramLocal.aspx.es.resx, is contained in ...