Is there any way to use StaticResource in a WPF control library and be able to view at design-time?

Question

I have a WPF Control Library that is being added to a windows forms application. We want to allow the controls to be localizable, however I am not sure how to FULLY accomplish t

Answer 1

Here's my partial solution to your problem. I haven't tried to handle loose resources, but I have some success with sharing resources between WinForms and WPF.

• Create a class library to contain your resources in .ResX files (e.g. Resources.resx, Resources.fr.resx, etc)
• Create your WPF controls in a WPF user control library
• Create your WinForms host

• Reference the resources in your resource library from WPF using the Infralution.Localization.Wpf markup extension and culture manager, e.g.

• Put the content of your WPF user controls into one or more resource dictionaries as control templates,e,g

• Use the resource template in your user controls

• Add a couple of lines of code to make things work

  public partial class UserControl1 : UserControl
  {
      // we require a reference to the resource library to ensure it's loaded into memory
      private Class1 _class1 = new Class1();
  
      public UserControl1()
      {
          // Use the CultureManager to switch to the current culture
          CultureManager.UICulture = Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture;
  
          InitializeComponent();
      }
  }
  

Here's a simple demo app called WindowsFormsHost.7z