Bill & JiGong,

Base on the information exchange between both of you I have solved my problem and learned a few things in the process.  That's one of the things I like most about the DNN Community -- everyone's willing to share info & experiences.

Bill,,, For the record, I chose your option #2 setting the child control's LocalResourceFile in the Page_Load of the main form.  I have made note of your comment about that option not having been tested much and will note any problems but so far it seems to work fine.  At least for my current need.  In case your wondering, I chose to go with naming the resource file using the filename of the user control itself.  It seems to be less confusing, this way all the resource files match the actual user controls that uses them.

Again, many thanks to both.  Best Regards,

Chuck R.

This just a slight variation of what Mr. William Severance wrote, but I am able to stick with the directory structure and naming convention of ~/controls/App_LocalResources/ControlA.ascx.resx. It seems to work OK, so far...

I have only added this to the child user control and do nothing with events:

Private _localResourceFile As String

    Public ReadOnly Property LocalResourceFile() As String
        Get
            If _localResourceFile = String.Empty Then
                _localResourceFile = Me.TemplateSourceDirectory & "/" & Services.Localization.Localization.LocalResourceDirectory & "/" & Path.GetFileName(Me.AppRelativeVirtualPath)
            End If
            Return _localResourceFile
        End Get
    End Property

Hi

I have the same problem and have read through this thread and tried everything to no avail. I am using DNN 8.0.4.

My skin user control pulls in localisation text fine. This skin control displays two common child user controls which are used in several skin files. I am trying to add localisation to one of these child user controls.

The span placeholder tag is loading into the child control when browsing but the child control is not pulling in the localisation text from its resource file which is located in the App_LocalResources sub-folder.

Stripped down a little my main skin code is:

<%@ Control language="vb" AutoEventWireup="false" Explicit="True" Inherits="DotNetNuke.UI.Skins.Skin" CodeBehind="Blar.ascx.vb" %>

<%@ Register TagPrefix="dnn" TagName="LANGUAGE" Src="~/Admin/Skins/Language.ascx" %>

<%@ Register TagPrefix="dnn" Namespace="DotNetNuke.Web.DDRMenu.TemplateEngine" Assembly="DotNetNuke.Web.DDRMenu" %>

<%@ Register TagPrefix="dnn" TagName="MENU" src="~/DesktopModules/DDRMenu/Menu.ascx" %>

<%@ Register TagPrefix="dnn" TagName="TEXT" Src="~/Admin/Skins/Text.ascx" %>

<%@ Register src="~/Portals/0/Skins/MySkin/ctrlContactUs.ascx" tagname="ctrlContactUs" tagprefix="cu1" %>

 

Child Control:

<%@ Control Language="VB" AutoEventWireup="false" CodeFile="ctrlContactUs.ascx.vb" Inherits="Portals_0_Skins_MySkin_ctrlContactUs" %>

<%@ Register TagPrefix="uc" TagName="CONTACTUS" Src="~/Admin/Skins/Text.ascx" %>

 

Child Resource in  sub-folder App_LocalResources:

 

    Blar blar.

 

 

    +44 (0)1234 567890

 

 

 

 

I've been round in circles for a whole day on this but cannot get it to work. any help would be most appreciated.

Thanks in advance.