Hi everyone,

Need someone's help. I've modified a single resource key for a portal using the language editor. When doing this, DNN behind the scenes creates a new resource file for me called GlobalResources.Portal-0.resx.

During the next request to my site, the ASP.NET system notices that the App_GlobalResources directory has changed, and attempts to recompile my global resources. When doing so, I receive the following error:

CS0101: The namespace 'Resources' already contains a definition for 'GlobalResources'

Looking in the automatically-generated resource types, I see that yes, there is in fact an error:

Temporary ASP.NET Files\root\8ee98e0c\32a65e57\App_GlobalResources.q4_cd4kc.1.cs(26,18):

namespace Resources {
...
public class GlobalResources {...}
}
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And in \Temporary ASP.NET Files\root\8ee98e0c\32a65e57\App_GlobalResources.q4_cd4kc.0.cs:

namespace Resources.GlobalResources {
...
public class Portal_0 {...}
}

So the class GlobalResources is colliding with the namespace Resources.GlobalResources.

Renaming the GlobalResources.Portal-0.resx file to a "real" culture (eg; GlobalResources.en-GB.resx) corrects this error. I presume -- though I don't know for sure -- that registering the culture Portal-0 on my system as a real culture would work too, but registering Portal-0 through Portal-9999 is too big of a kludge for me to consider.

I can't believe that I'm the only one experiencing this error, but I've seen no others with similar issues. So, could anyone confirm that they are successfully using portal-specific resources (GlobalResources.Portal-n.resx) in a .net 2.0 dnn ~4.4.1 environment? Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I might correct this error?

Thanks!

- Brandon

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Brandon Haynes
BrandonHaynes.org

I know this is a little late to reply to this post. But I hope this can help someone some day.
I am using DNN 4.6 and encountered same error after using the language editor. I solve the problem by add the following to web.config file (between <compilation></compilation> block)

<buildProviders> 
<remove extension=".resx" />
<remove extension=".resources" />
</buildProviders>

These lines were in my web.cofig file and I removed some time ago while I was trying to precompile the site.

Matt Chen