Visual Studio duplicating resource .cs file

Question

Visual Studio has begun exhibiting a rather irritating quirk. When I edit a resource file (using either the designer view or editing the XML directly), it creates a duplicate re

Answer 1

Clear the "Custom Tool" entry. appropriate rpt file it's located right click on rpt file --> properties ---> custom tool ---> clear

Answer 2

Replace in .csproj file the code like below:

<EmbeddedResource Include="Resources\ProjectSQL.resx">
   <Generator>ResXFileCodeGenerator</Generator>
   <LastGenOutput>ProjectSQL1.Designer.cs</LastGenOutput>
</EmbeddedResource>

With code like below:-

<EmbeddedResource Include="Resources\ProjectSQL.resx">    
   <Generator>ResXFileCodeGenerator</Generator>
   <LastGenOutput>ProjectSQL.Designer.cs</LastGenOutput>
</EmbeddedResource>

Source: http://www.codeproject.com/Questions/227676/Resource-file-regenerating

Answer 3

In case this happens to anyone else and you find yourself here, Hans' comment above pointed me toward the project file. I had to close the solution, find the LastGenOutput tag in the project XML file, and change the name of the resource output back to ProjectSQL from ProjectSQL1.

I still have no idea how this happened. But at least it's fixed now.