How to get Name by string Value from a .NET resource (RESX) file

Question

Here's how my RESX file look like:

Name            Value        Comments
Rule_seconds    seconds      seconds
Rule_Sound      Sound        Sound

What I want is: Name by string Value, something like below:

public string GetResxNameByValue(string value)
{
// some code to get name value
}

And implement it like below:

string str = GetResxNameByValue("seconds");

so that str will return Rule_seconds

Thanks!

Answer 1

This could work

private string GetResxNameByValue(string value)
{
    System.Resources.ResourceManager rm = new System.Resources.ResourceManager("YourNamespace.YourResxFileName", this.GetType().Assembly);
    var entry = rm.GetResourceSet(System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture, true, true)
        .OfType<DictionaryEntry>()
        .FirstOrDefault(e => e.Value.ToString() ==value);

    var key = entry.Key.ToString();
    return key;
}

With some additional error checking..