How to get .resx string value from partial name?

Question

Hi all, I'm creating an application that I would like to Localize down the road and so I've put every string in a Resources.resx file. I'm struggling to find an elegant solution to getting error message strings. As of right now, I pass an enum around to reference which error has occurred, then use that enum to lookup the strings I need just before displaying.

With everything in the .resx file, the problem is that we don't know the error until it occurs, so I need a way to dynamically locate the correct strings rather than hardcode them. I could use a switch statement with the enum as the arg, but this feels sloppy. Here's an example:

switch(errorCode)
{
   case error1:
       error.errorName = Resources.Error1_NoDevicesName;
       error.errorDesc = Resources.Error1_NoDevicesDescription;
       break;

    case error2:
       error.errorName = Resources.Error2_DeviceConnectionName;
       error.errorDesc = Resources.Error2_DeviceConnectionDescription;
       break;

}

However, I'm wondering if it would be possible to search by a partial name instead, where we look for a name that starts with "Error" + "errorCode.ToString()" and ends with "Name"? Or perhaps there's a better way to do this?

EDIT: No clue what is going on with the formatting

Answer 1

Try something like this:

int errorCode = 1;

var a = Assembly.GetEntryAssembly( );
var rm = new ResourceManager( typeof( Properties.Resources ).FullName, a );
var rs = rm.GetResourceSet( Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture, true, true );

var n = rs.Cast<DictionaryEntry>( ).FirstOrDefault( e => Regex.IsMatch( e.Key.ToString( ), $"Error{errorCode}_.+Name" ) );
var d = rs.Cast<DictionaryEntry>( ).FirstOrDefault( e => Regex.IsMatch( e.Key.ToString( ), $"Error{errorCode}_.+Description" ) );

string error_name = n.Value.ToString( );
string error_description = d.Value.ToString( );