Now it's easier to create and manage strongly-typed resources for your project by using Resource Designer in Visual Studio 2005. Resource Designer is language-neutral and supports projects in all of the Visual Studio languages. Supported resource types include strings, images, icons, and audio files. Choosing “Auto Merge All” in this dialog tells Team Foundation Server to automatically merge differences between the files. Only if there is a conflicting change will Team Foundation Server prompt for user input; otherwise, all changes are seamlessly integrated.

Items added to a project using Resource Designer are placed in the project's resources directory. Information is stored in Resources.resx and code for the resource is stored in Resources.Designer.cs, .vb, or .jsl. For Visual C# and Visual J#, Resource Designer generates strongly-typed resources in the project folder's default namespace; for Visual Basic, strongly-typed resources are generated in the My.Resources namespace. You can also use Resource Designer to edit stand-alone .resx files.