Howto to use resources from System.Web?

[dpomt]

I am using the ContentTemplate to extend the CreateUserWizard's
CreateUserWizardStep with additional controls. For the CreateUserWizardStep
labels, I would like to keep the automatic localization.
With Lutz Roeder's .Net Reflector, I found out that System.Web contains the
text resource System.Web.Resources and I found e.g. the name/value-pair
CreateUserWizard_DefaultUserNameLabelText=User Name:

My question here is: how can I bind this resource entry to the label?

I tried adding
Text="<%$ Resources:System.Web.resources,
CreateUserWizard_DefaultUserNameLabelText %>
to the asp:Label but I get the error message:
Parser error. The resource object with key
'CreateUserWizard_DefaultUserNameLabelText' was not found.
<asp:Label ID="UserNameLabel" runat="server" AssociatedControlID="UserName"
Text="<%$ Resources:System.Web.resources,
CreateUserWizard_DefaultUserNameLabelText %>" /></td>
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Dieter

[Steven Cheng[MSFT]]

Hello Dieter,

From your description, you're using the ContentTemplate to customize the
CreateUserWizard control and also want to utilize the existing localizaed
resources of the CreateuserWizard control. However, when you try using the
<%$ Resources:... %expression to reference the resource, it not work,
correct?

As for this issue, it is due to the natural limitation of the <%$ Resource
%expression, this expression just identical to the following methods in
page:

HttpContext.GetGlobalResourceObject Method

HttpContext.GetLocalResourceObject Method

Both of the two methods(also the <%$ Resource expression %>) can only
reference resource items defined within the current ASP.NET application's
LocalResource or GlobalResource, but can not reference resource items in
external assemblies. Actually, through the reflector diassembled code, you
can find that the built-in CreateUserWizard control is using the following
code to load resource string from assembly:

==================
ResourceManager rm = new ResourceManager("System.Web",
typeof(CreateUserWizard));

rm.GetString(keyname, Culture);

===================

Therefore, if you want to load any localization resource objects from
external assembly, you need to use ResourceManager to do it
programmatically.
Please feel free to let me know if you have anything unclear or any other
questions here.

Sincerely,

Steven Cheng

Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead

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[dpomt]

Hello Steven,

thanks for the feedback!

ResourceManager rm = new ResourceManager("System.Web",
typeof(CreateUserWizard));

using typeof(CreateUserWizard).Assembly (with ".Assembly") instead, will
make it comilable.

The solution you have provided works great. Thanks a lot!

Best regards,
Dieter