Embedded resource txt file is not updating

Question

I have a project with a .txt file in a folder. The .txt file is set to Embedded Resource.

I use this code to read it:

var assembly = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly();
var manifestResources = assembly.GetManifestResourceNames();

string s = manifestResources.Single(c => c.EndsWith("Cats.txt"));

Which works great.

However I updated Cats.txt and noticed my project didn't update.

I deleted Cats.txt and found that it is still working fine and reading the file.

I tried cleaning my solution, rebuilding, and iisreset, but it seems to insist the file is still there in the assembly despite me removing it.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

Actually, the problem is solved by Cleaning the solution first, and then Building it again. I did not have to quit Visual Studio to update my embedded resource.

Answer 2

重建解决方案（或启动项目）更新嵌入式资源。

Answer 3

Okay so I fixed this by restarting visual studio. I have no idea how that affected it.

When I inspected the properties of 'assembly', the CodeBase attribute was pointing to an older copy of the DLL in a completely different folder, that was somewhere else on my hard disk, that I had open in another Visual Studio window.

I have no idea what underlying mechanism caused this to happen, I definitely had the correct version of the solution open and I was debugging it.

Closing the solution and opening it again fixed it. Chalk this one up to bizarro caching behaviour or something.

Answer 4

I had the same problem, cleaning building and many other things didn't work. I had to modify the resource designer. After that, the resources were rebuil correctly