The .NET Managed Resource File
With the .NET Framework, Microsoft has devised a solution for handling application resources that can be used within all the .NET languages. Visual C++ .NET is no exception. Rather than using the older resource scripts (.rc files), as was used with previous versions of Visual C++, the .NET Framework uses an XML-based file format with a file extension of .resx. The obvious advantage of using an XML-based format over the .rc file format is demonstrated by the number of tools available for XML files. XML is easy to parse, it is self-describing when used with a schema, and an abundance of third-party XML editors are available.
The process of creating a .NET resource file, however, is a little more difficult. Even though ...
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