Resource files do not update the designer

[mmiller-d8]

Type: Bug

When modifying a resource xml file for localization, it does not update the designer.cs file upon saving. This is kind of a deal breaker.

Right now, I'm having to bounce between VS Code and Visual Studio for Mac. I quite enjoy the C# editing experience even though it still has a ways to go, but the Xaml and other Maui bits feel like an Alpha release. If that, even.

Extension version: 0.9.7 VS Code version: Code 1.87.2 (863d2581ecda6849923a2118d93a088b0745d9d6, 2024-03-08T15:20:57.520Z) OS version: Darwin arm64 23.2.0 Modes:

System Info

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gpu_compositing: enabled
multiple_raster_threads: enabled_on
opengl: enabled_on
rasterization: enabled
raw_draw: disabled_off_ok
skia_graphite: disabled_off
video_decode: enabled
video_encode: enabled
webgl: enabled
webgl2: enabled
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[arkalyanms]

@mmiller-d8 would you be able to share a repro'able project?

[Michael-Eng]

Adding area-project to consider

[tmeschter]

@mmiller-d8 Also, is the .designer.cs file updated during a build?

[mmiller-d8]

@arkalyanms @tmeschter

It is not updating when I build it either, unfortunately. I created a new project that repros it. I created the project in Visual Studio and made sure it ran, then I added a new resource file with one value. It updated as it should in Visual Studio. Then I closed it and opened it in VS Code. I added another value and it did not update the designer. I built and ran the project, and it still didn't update the file.

I tried updating it in both the file explorer and the solution explorer. Neither one worked.

The repo is here

Oh, and I probably should have mentioned that this is a .Net Maui project. I just tried in with and Asp.Net project and it didn't work either.

[mauroa]

Removing "area-maui" since it doesn't look like MAUI specific, according to latest user comments

[DeerSteak]

Is there a workaround for this, other than opening the project and rebuilding it in Visual Studio?

[mmiller-d8]

@DeerSteak Luckily, you don't have to rebuild. Just do the edits in VS and save it. It updates the resource designer and VS Code picks up the change. It's a pain that you have to flip back and forth, but it works.

[DeerSteak]

@mmiller-d8 that's awesome, thanks. Guess I need to reinstall VS for Mac.

[timheuer]

@maddymontaquila this doesn't build even the resources on dotnet build the resources are using a generator that doesn't seem to be working...is something in the MAUI SDK failing?

<EmbeddedResource Update="Resources\Localization\AppResources.resx">
        <Generator>PublicResXFileCodeGenerator</Generator>
        <LastGenOutput>AppResources.Designer.cs</LastGenOutput>
</EmbeddedResource>

[viniciusjarina]

This is a important feature for localization that was done by VSMac/MonoDevelop https://github.com/mono/monodevelop/blob/main/main/src/core/MonoDevelop.Ide/MonoDevelop.Ide.CustomTools/ResXFileCodeGenerator.cs. And really make using VS Code for C# more painful.

It should be ported to C# DevKit, or maybe extracted as a custom MSBuild Task and run during the build.

It seems Rider handle it properly re-generating the Strings.designer.cs when you add a string.

[jfversluis]

Just ran into this, this seems like something important as without it its impossible to localize .NET MAUI apps when VS for Mac goes out of support. Or you'd have to do things manually, which seems crazy. Just leaving my +1 here!

[bfunk-tt]

Until this gets fixed in tools, David Ortinau has a workaround for your csproj to auto-generate resource files:

https://github.com/davidortinau/SentenceStudio/blob/main/src/SentenceStudio/SentenceStudio.csproj#L145-L158

You can follow a similar pattern. It works in my case, which is nice.