The resource class for this page was not found.

Question

User681036950 posted

 I have created a resource file using the Tools>Generate Local Resource.  For some reason when I 
run my website locally I am not able to see any of the resource strings.  I have the correct 
syntax in the html - 

<asp:label id="lblPhoneNumber" runat="server" meta:resourcekey="PhoneNumber"/>

My page is being loaded into a javascript tab control and I believe this is the reason it can't find 
the App_LocalResources resx file.  I have tried adding the App_LocalResources folder and it's 
contents to several logical places that it might be looking, but I've had no luck..  

Does anyone know how I can locate where VS 2008 is looking for the resource file? 

 

Answer 1

User756774649 posted
One issue: when you're using the automatic generation tool ... it should create App_LocalResources and also create a .resx file for your page. If that didn't happen then you definitely got a problem there. So are they created or not?

Answer 2

User681036950 posted

 Yeah, both the App_LocalResource folder and the resx file(Build set to content) were created.  Also, I created a test website and created a test resource file for that and it worked fine so I can get it to work on a basic site, just not for the main site with the page hosted in tabs.

 

Thanks for any help...

Answer 3

User681036950 posted

 I figured out how to solve this issue.  First I had to make the project I added to the ASP.Net solution a virtual directory.  Then I had to put the necessary   <location path="." inheritInChildApplications="false"> tags in the root web.config file. After that the issue was that my aspx page was in a subdirectory.  So the structure looked like Website/Test/Test.  Once I moved all of the contents of the project up one directory it worked.