asp.net App_LocalResources folder

Question

I would like to have App_LocalResources folder outside web application folder, so that I could deploy updated resx files and web app. independent of each other.

Reasons: We do not want to change current deploy tool.

Any way to achieve this?

Answer 1

Way the default resource manager works in asp.net is it picks the resex entries for the respective aspx file from the App_LocalResources folder in the current directory. As far as I know this behavior is not something you can configure (ie to ask it to pick entries from a different folder!) But there is a workaround, that you could implement your own Resource Manager and let it picks entries from a location you specify it to. Found this and this while googling. Hope that helps.