I happened to be working on a C# Roslyn code analyzer and being cognizant that not all the world speaks English, I went through the five minutes of work to internationalize the analyzer DLL. Add the .RESX file and you’re pretty much done. All my unit tests ran perfectly as did the tests of running the analyzer as a .VSIX. However, when I ran the tests with the analyzer in a NuGet package, I kept getting the compiler crashing with a FileNotFoundException trying to load the <assemblyname>.resources.dll file. After spending several hours trying different attempts at working around the problem, it finally dawned on me, I had run into this same bug many, many years ago.
Even though you have the resources in the assembly, that’s not the default place .NET looks. To tell .NET to look in the assembly, you have to specify in your Assembly.CS file the following:
[assembly: NeutralResourcesLanguage(“en-US”)]
That’s all there is to it. Why .NET resource searching doesn’t always look in the assembly by default is beyond me. Now that the Core Framework is open sourced, maybe I should submit a patch!