resgen or ResXFileCodeGenerator

https://forums.xamarin.com/discussion/87175/not-able-to-use-resgen-on-mac-to-generate-cs-strongly-types-resource-class-file

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/tools/resgen-exe-resource-file-generator

Unfortunately resgen.exe for mono and normal resgen.exe are different software - I can not generate the AppResources.Designer.cs file in Linux.

It doesn't work:

    <EmbeddedResource Include="Resx\AppResources.resx">
      <Generator>ResXFileCodeGenerator</Generator>
      <LastGenOutput>AppResources.Designer.cs</LastGenOutput>
    </EmbeddedResource>

And I can't say why.

Interesting that msbuild can generate that file for Droid project (strings.xml), but not for PCL.

Solution:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/ru-ru/library/system.resources.tools.stronglytypedresourcebuilder(v=vs.110).aspx

modify the result .cs:

sed -i 's/using System;/using System;\n    using System.Reflection;\n/g' AppResources.Designer.cs

sed -i 's/typeof(AppResources).Assembly/typeof(AppResources).GetTypeInfo().Assembly/g' AppResources.Designer.cs

It works when I put the AppResources.resx in the root directory of PCL, but if I use other directory, then it may not work. I have no time today to figure out how to configure it if it possible.


P.S. For myself - other related links to review:
( https://dzone.com/articles/missing-reswfilecodegenerator )
http://reswcodegen.codeplex.com/
https://github.com/christianhelle/reswcodegen

https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/13830/Extended-Strongly-Typed-Resource-Generator

http://www.linuxonly.nl/docs/49/145_Run_custom_tool_on_each_resx_file_when_building.html

https://stringresourcetool.codeplex.com/SourceControl/latest

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=JohnAaronNelson.ForceCode (?)

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=EZSlaver.ExtendedStronglyTypedResourceGenerator (source code exists)

http://blog.baltrinic.com/software-development/dotnet/t4-template-replace-resxfilecodegenerator

Interesting:

https://forums.xamarin.com/discussion/58542/resx-localization-not-working-on-real-devices

To answer:

https://forums.xamarin.com/discussion/80627/can-i-generate-resource-designer-cs-programatically
https://forums.xamarin.com/discussion/86800/is-there-any-way-to-generate-designer-cs-files-from-command-line