[Mono-list] Best (Cross-Platform) Practice for Resources

[Charlie Poole]

Hi All,

VS2005 and 2008 create resources in a Properties folder and generate
a Properties.<ResourceName>.Designer.cs file for each one.

The resulting assemblies are portable to Mono for execution purposes,
and can even be compiled by gmcs if you set the resource prefix correctly.

However, this isn't very helpful for a project with contributors
who work on other platforms or ides. The Designer.cs files can
be edited, but since they are generated, the changes will be 
lost the next time somebody works with them in Visual Studio.

So... I'm thinking of going back to a more hand-crafted approach,
with resources in a directory and actual application code to
load them as needed.

Before I start, I'm wondering if anyone else has dealt with
this and has a better solution.

Charlie