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Visual Basic 2015 Unleashed
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Visual Basic 2015 Unleashed

by Alessandro Del Sole
July 2015
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1300 pages
87h 27m
English
Sams
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Resources and the Resources.resx File

Visual Studio 2015 enables you to define resources that you can embed in your assembly’s metadata and use within your applications. Resources can include strings, icons, picture files, audio files, and so on. My Project offers a tab named Resources that provides a visual way to define project-level resources.

Practical Use of Resources

Although they are available in several kinds of projects, resources have to be used to fit particular scenarios. For example, resources can be successfully used in Windows applications such as the Console and Windows Forms, but they are not the best choice for XAML-based platforms such as Windows Presentation Foundation or Windows 8.x Store applications. So you need to pay ...

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