.net - Resource String Location

Question

Where is the best location to place resource strings? Does it depend on scope? Currently most of our strings are being placed at the project level, but certain strings are only needed for one form. My thoughts would be that these strings should be placed as close to their use as possible.

Answer 1

You should strongly favor using resources at the form level (set the form's Localizable property to True in the designer). The designer has very good support for it and the WinRes.exe utility is available to localize strings off-line. No code is required.

Localizing project resource strings is possible but not well supported by the IDE. Check my answer in this thread for an approach.