Ok, well, this is not easily modified without making changes to other classes that call it.  I realized that that the constant Localization.SharedResourceFile is a static member and for me to change it to read from - or even look in a different location would require a call to New() which means I'd have to go through the entire project making changes.  I would have rather have been able to make a few changes to the Localization.vb class only, but it looks like this is not possible.  Bummer.