Re: Failed to load resources from resource file, please check your setup

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Sarah Woodfield wrote:
> I have written an application in VB.Net which runs well on my
> development PC. However on a few clients machines, at apparently
> random intervals, they get the above message and the programme
> crashes out. The error isn't occurring during set-up, but during use
> of the programme. I am having trouble trapping for this as I don't
> know what it means
> and therefore what might be causing it.
> As far as I know, I am not using any resource files (though that may
> be my lack of knowledge!!)

Do you have a stack trace, that is an idea of what class is throwing the
exception? Is ResourceManager in the stack?

You'll find the details of how resources are loaded in my Fusion
workshop, so I won't go into too many details here. Basically, if you
have localised resources then these will be stored in 'satellite
assemblies', however, they are not loaded like normal assemblies.
Instead, at runtime, the ResourceManager object tests the thread locale
and checks for a satellite assembly that has the culture of that locale.
It will look for the satellite in a subfolder with the name of the
culture. (For example en for English, en-GB for UK English, en-US for US
English). Note that satellite assemblies do not use the same versioning
mechanism as normal assemblies.

If ResourceManager cannot find the right satellite it will look for the
resource in the current assembly (the 'neutral' culture).

I suspect that you are using satellites, and have them installed, but
they are old versions that do not have the specific resource that is
being looked for.

Anyway, the stack trace will be useful.

Richard
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