Resouce in .resx file not visible to MVC code

Question

I have a solution with two projects. One is called Resources and is a collection of resource .resx files for localization. The other is an MVC 5 project that has Resources as a reference. I define a new resource in the .resx file called EmailAddress and sure enough it is in Resource.Designer,cs:

 internal static string EmailAddress {
            get {
                return ResourceManager.GetString("EmailAddress", resourceCulture);
            }
        }

However, when I try to refernce in my Model class it says it doesn't exist:

[Display(Name = "EmailAddress", ResourceType = typeof(Resources.Resources))]
        [Required(ErrorMessageResourceType = typeof(Resources.Resources),
                  ErrorMessageResourceName = "EmailRequired")]
        [RegularExpression(".+@.+\\..+", ErrorMessageResourceType = typeof(Resources.Resources),
                                         ErrorMessageResourceName = "EmailInvalid")]
        public string EmailAddress { get; set; }

Also, if I try to do this a Razor View, it doesn't show up in the Intellisense:

@Resources.Resources.

What is going on? I should also state that the resource file was originally taken from a sample project and the resources that were in it show up but any I add don't (but its the designer cs file).

Make sure your project has a reference to your resources project. Also in your view you will need to add the @using statement followed by your projectnamespace — heymega
I have both and it still does not find any that I add. The "original set" is there. I get this error on running with the model the way shown above "Cannot retrieve property 'Name' because localization failed. Type 'Resources.Resources' is not public or does not contain a public static string property with the name 'EmailAddress'." — user2471435
What is the Build Action (under file properties when you select the .resx file) of your resources vs the files from the original sample? — Mike Guthrie
Also, when editing your .resx file, is the Access Modifier set to Public or Internal? — Mike Guthrie
They are all set to Internal. I don't see how to change this. The ones that work all internal too. — user2471435

Rolando Retana Rolando Retana · Accepted Answer · 2018-06-27T02:42:03

I had a very similar problem, in my case it was solved by doing 2 things to those resource files:

Set the custom Tool to PublicResXFileCodeGenerator.
Set the build action to "Embedded Resource".
Additionally added the reference in the web.config for the views to the resources in the namespaces section.

After that, it was solved so I was able to call it as "@Resources.Resources.EmailAddress"

Resouce in .resx file not visible to MVC code

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