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How do I set the Form banner text (Form.Text) to the value of a resource string?

Try this - the ResourceToolkit addin is very nice :-)

Add a resource file to your project, and put a string in it. Then add this code: 

Dim ResMgr As New System.Resources.ResourceManager("MyProgram.ResourceFileName", My.Application.GetType().Assembly)

Form.Text = ResMgr.GetString("TitleBarText")

Blue Ninja:

Try this - the ResourceToolkit addin is very nice :-)

Add a resource file to your project, and put a string in it. Then add this code: 

Dim ResMgr As New System.Resources.ResourceManager("MyProgram.ResourceFileName", My.Application.GetType().Assembly)

Form.Text = ResMgr.GetString("TitleBarText")

 

Interesting. How can I do in C#, without My object?

 

Thanks
 

To get the current assembly, you can use any type that is in the assembly. E.g. typeof(CurrentClassName).Assembly
 

DanielGrunwald:

To get the current assembly, you can use any type that is in the assembly. E.g. typeof(CurrentClassName).Assembly
 

 

Thank you Daniel. It works fine.

Hi! Would be interested to use the Resource string to set the Form Title (Form.Text) at Design Time. Is there any WinForms resource-binding expressions available like in ASP.NET 2.0? Thank you!

The title of the form (the bar that you can move around) can be changed with this text in C#...

this.text = " Yippe! ";

I show how to do that in another link here...

http://community.sharpdevelop.net/forums/thread/16621.aspx

As far as the Resource file, you should still be able to use the code that is shown you in above messeges.

Hope this helps,

JW.

VITRIOL:

Interesting. How can I do in C#, without My object?

 

Thanks
 

ResourceManager ResMgr;
            ResMgr = new ResourceManager("Temp.Temp", this.GetType().Assembly);
            this.Text = ResMgr.GetString("TitleBar");

 

BTW, Blue Ninja forgets to mentions that the first parameter to the ResourceManager constructor is "Assembly.ResourcefileWithourExtension". Luckily this one is very easy to figure out by the exception thrown.