Hello!
I am a newbie for C#, although I have several years of experience with OOP.
For a project in the design phase, I was chosen to find out how multilinguality can be done under C#. For the project, I am currently using Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Express…
WHAT I HAVE DONE TILL NOW
I read about several articles on this subject, like „System.Resources FAQ“ (https://www.google.com/bookmarks/url?url=http://msdn…), „Multilingual Applications in .NET“ (https://www.google.com/bookmarks/url?url=http://www…) or „C# multilingual support“ (https://www.google.com/bookmarks/url?url=http://www…), but still have problems getting my demo to run.
My demo worked without resource files with hard-coded text for all cultures (ar-SA, en-UK, de-DE, no, sv-SE, and tr). I run into problems when I tried it with resource files.
HOW I TRIED TO SOLVE IT
To solve it, I created a resource file for each culture, called Resource…resx. All the tutorials were not written for MS VS 2010, so there was no information about the combo box on the resources, which I had left at default („no code generation“) instead of „Internal“. 
Now, I have the resource files for the six languages:
Resource.ar-SA.resx
Resource.de-DE.resx
etc.
I determined the IDE-generated *.resources files and and determine the path for each of it according to the selected language.
When I run the code, I get stuck with the message
MainWindow:smiley:etermineResourceManager(): Exception: System.BadImageFormatException: Im Modul wurde ein Assemblymanifest erwartet. (Ausnahme von HRESULT: 0x80131018)
bei System.Reflection.RuntimeAssembly.nLoadFile(String path, Evidence evidence)
bei System.Reflection.Assembly.LoadFile(String path)
bei WpfApplication1.MainWindow.DetermineResourceManager() in C:\Documents and Settings\z002zatp\My Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Projects\WpfApplication1\WpfApplication1\MainWindow.xaml.cs:Zeile 136.
OK
So, a so-called assembly manifest is missing.
MY QUESTION
What have I to do let the IDE create the assembly manifest properly?
Thank you for your replies!
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THE CODE:
The problematic line is marked below. I checked and found out that the files at C:\Documents and Settings\z002zatp\My Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Projects\WpfApplication1\WpfApplication1\obj\x86\Debug do exist.
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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows;
using System.Windows.Controls;
using System.Windows.Data;
using System.Windows.Documents;
using System.Windows.Input;
using System.Windows.Media;
using System.Windows.Media.Imaging;
using System.Windows.Navigation;
using System.Windows.Shapes;
using System.Globalization; // class CultureInfo
using System.Resources; // class Thread
using System.Threading; //
namespace WpfApplication1
{
///
/// Interaktionslogik für MainWindow.xaml
///
///
public partial class MainWindow : Window
{
static string[,] culture = new string[,] { { „ar-SA“, „Arabic“, „Saudi Arabia“ }, { „de-DE“, „German“, „Germany“ },
{ „en-UK“, „English“, „United Kingdom“}, // { „en-US“, „English“, „United States of America“},
{ „no“, „Norwegian (Bokmål)“, „Norway“}, { „sv-SE“, „Swedish“, „Sweden“},
{ „tr“, „Turkish“, null } };
static string[] label = new string[] { „Caption“, „Message“ };
static short selectedCulture = 1; // de-DE
ResourceManager rm = null;
public MainWindow()
{
InitializeComponent();
textBox1.AppendText(culture[selectedCulture, 1]);
Keyboard.Focus(btnMessage);
}
private void btnMessage_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs rea)
{
const string METHOD = "MainWindow:btnMessage_Click: ";
try
{
DetermineResourceManager();
MessageBox.Show(rm.GetString(label[1]), rm.GetString(label[0]),
MessageBoxButton.OK, MessageBoxImage.None, MessageBoxResult.None);
}
catch (MissingManifestResourceException mmre)
{
MessageBox.Show(METHOD + "Exception: " + mmre, „Error“);
}
catch (Exception e)
{
MessageBox.Show(METHOD + "Unexpected exception: " + e, „Error“);
}
SwitchLanguage();
textBox1.Text = culture[selectedCulture, 1];
}
private void DetermineResourceManager()
{
const string METHOD = "MainWindow:smiley:etermineResourceManager(): ";
string path = „C:\Documents and Settings\z002zatp\My Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Projects\“ +
„WpfApplication1\WpfApplication1\obj\x86\Debug\“;
string resource = „WpfApplication1.Resource.“ + culture[selectedCulture, 0] + „.resources“;
System.Reflection.Assembly assembly = null;
//MessageBox.Show(METHOD + "Resource to be loaded: " + path + resource);
try
{
>>> assembly = System.Reflection.Assembly.LoadFile(path + resource); = culture.Length/3)
selectedCulture = 0;
}
}
}
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