Could not find any resources appropriate for the specified culture or the neutral culture

Question

I have two ASP.NET Web projects (ProjectA and ProjectB). When class in ProjectA is instantiating a class of ProjectB which uses a resource file Blah.resx, I get this error:

Answer 1

Sibi Elangos answer alone was not sufficient for me, so I had to

• Right click on your ResourceFile
• Change the "Build Action" property
• Compile to "Embedded Resource"
• Build and deploy

This will generate an App_GlobalResources in your /bin folder, now copy that folder also to the root of the web application

Answer 2

No-one seems to have mentioned this solution. Obvious really - but tripped me over for a moment...

The default access modifier for a new resources file is Internal (or Friend in VB.Net.) Make sure you change this to Public

(in the resx designer there is a dropdown at the top for the access modifier)

Answer 3

Right-click on the resources and select Run Custom Tool

This will fix the designer

Answer 4

In my case I had placed a new class on top of a Windows form, within the same file.

Moving the newly added class out of that file fixed the problem.

See here: http://i.stack.imgur.com/wVu6c.png

Answer 5

This can also occur when putting a class above the main winform class (Form1, for example) You can see this when you look at the design, as it fails to be rendered.

Answer 6

For users who facing this isssue in .NET Core 3.0, this could be related to a breaking change that made in .NET Core 3.0, to resolve it just set EmbeddedResourceUseDependentUponConvention to false in your project csproj:

<PropertyGroup>
  <EmbeddedResourceUseDependentUponConvention>false</EmbeddedResourceUseDependentUponConvention>
</PropertyGroup>