The class ResXResourceWriter could not be found

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I have a very small C# program and uses ResXResourceWriter class, but it always got compilation error:
the type or namespace name 'ResXResourceWriter' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

The code is simple and uses Visual Studio 2008 on Vista Ultimate:
//================================================================

C#

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Resources;
using System.Drawing;

namespace Test
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {

            ResXResourceWriter rw = new ResXResourceWriter("Demo.resx");

            using (Image image = Image.FromFile("logo.gif"))
            {
                rw.AddResrouce("WroxLogo", image);
                rw.AddResource("Title", "Professional C#");
                rw.AddResource("chapter", "Localizeation");
                rw.AddResource("Author","You guys");
                rw.AddResource("Publisher", "Test Publisher");
            }
        }
    }
}

Posted 14-Feb-15 10:22am

Southmountain

Updated 29-Mar-22 20:58pm

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 14-Feb-15 23:07pm

First of all, why would you do it, AddResource? The purpose of embedded resource is pretty much obvious to what you are doing.
—SA

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Solution 2

Use System.resource.netstanders from nugit package ResXResourceReader.NetStanderds

Posted 29-Mar-22 20:58pm

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Richard Deeming 30-Mar-22 3:35am

There is no such package.

And even if you spell it correctly, a package that relates to .NET Standard is not relevant to an already-solved question about Visual Studio 2008.

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Dave Kreskowiak · Accepted Answer · 2015-02-14T10:30:00

Two things. One, the error message is giving you a rather large hint about what's wrong.

Taking a look at the documentation on ResXResourceWriter, here[^], will tell you exactly what you're missing.

It says that you need to import the System.Resources namespace, which is found in the System.Windows.Forms assembly.

Normally, in a Windows Forms app, you don't have to set a reference to the assembly because it's already there automatically. But, since you're writing a Console application, you have to explicitly add a Reference to the System.Windows.Forms assembly. After that you simply add the line "using System.Resources" to the top of your code file.